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Harper Lee: Media

American writer

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What inspired Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird?
Learn about the significance of Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Harper Lee
American novelist Harper Lee, 2001.
© Terrence Antonio James—Tribune Content Agency LLC/Alamy
Harper Lee and Truman Capote, 1960
Writers Truman Capote and Harper Lee were childhood friends in Monroeville, Alabama....
The Truman Capote Papers/The New York Public Library Digital Collection
Go Set a Watchman
Harper Lee's second novel, Go Set a Watchman, released in 2015.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
This book cover is one of many given to Harper Lee's classic work To Kill a Mockingbird...
Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group