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Harper Lee


Born
in Monroeville, Alabama, The United States
April 28, 1926

Died
February 19, 2016

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Genre
Literature & Fiction


Harper Lee, known as Nelle, was born in the Alabama town of Monroeville, 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, 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 year as editor of the campus humor ma ...more

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“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
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“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.”
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April 2016 Revisit the Shelf-Reread Poll

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, 288 pages, 1963
 
  30 votes, 16.2%

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, 324 pages, 1960
 
  24 votes, 13.0%

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, 539 pages, 1980
 
  20 votes, 10.8%

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, 251 pages, 1817
 
  14 votes, 7.6%

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, 273 pages, 1818
 
  14 votes, 7.6%

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, 592 pages, 1957
 
  13 votes, 7.0%

 
  13 votes, 7.0%

 
  11 votes, 5.9%

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, 311 pages, 1985
 
  11 votes, 5.9%

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, 227 pages, 1953
 
  8 votes, 4.3%

 
  6 votes, 3.2%

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, 320 pages, 1719
 
  6 votes, 3.2%

 
  5 votes, 2.7%

 
  4 votes, 2.2%

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, 306 pages, 1726
 
  3 votes, 1.6%

 
  3 votes, 1.6%

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