Harper Lee




Harper Lee

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born April 28, 1926
gender female
place of birth Monroeville, Alabama, United States
genre Literature & Fiction

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Early life
Harper Lee, known as Nelle, was born in the Alabama town of Monroeville on April 28, 1926, the youngest of four children of Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch Lee. Her father, a former newspaper editor and proprietor, was a lawyer who served on the state legislature from 1926 to 1938. As a child, Lee was a tomboy and a precocious reader, and enjoyed the friendship of her schoolmate and neighbor, the young Truman Capote.
After graduating from high school in Monroeville,[2] Lee enrolled at the all-female Huntingdon College in Montgomery (1944-45), and then pursued a law degree at the University of Alabama (1945-50), pledging the Chi Omega sorority. While there, she wrote for several student publications and spent a ye...more

books by Harper Lee

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avg rating: 4.37 | 88705 ratings | 15 distinct works
To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by Harper Lee
avg rating 4.52 — 534 ratings — published 1960
68 editions
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To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird (Heinemann Plays)
by Christopher Sergel, Harper Lee
avg rating 4.50 — 8 ratings — published 1995
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To Kill a Mockingbird Activity... To Kill a Mockingbird Activity Pack (Spiral-bound)
by Harper Lee
avg rating 3.50 — 8 ratings — published 2001
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Drep ikke en sangfugl Drep ikke en sangfugl (Paperback)
by Harper Lee
avg rating 5.00 — 1 ratings — published 1960
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To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird (Hardcover)
by Harper Lee
avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 1988
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To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird (Heinemann Floodlights)
by Christopher Sergal, Harper Lee
avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 1988
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Study Guide: To Kill a Mocking... Study Guide: To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by Harper Lee
avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 1989
4 editions
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To Kill a Mockingbird. Vokabul... To Kill a Mockingbird. Vokabularien. (Paperback)
by Harper Lee
avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 2003
2 editions
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X-kit Literature Series X-kit Literature Series (Broché)
by Harper Lee
avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 2005
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To Kill a Mockingbird: A Navig... To Kill a Mockingbird: A Navigational Novel Guide (Paperback)
by Harper Lee
avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 2005
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quotes by Harper Lee

1825
"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read.
One does not love breathing."
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1825
""I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what." -Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird"
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1825
""Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.""
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