Harper Lee grew up in Alabama, the daughter of a lawyer. She was educated in the South, moved to New York in the 1950s, took a job as an airline reservations clerk, and wrote her first and only novel during that time. To Kill a Mockingbird, published in 1960, won a Pulitzer Prize, and is still admired, widely-taught, and beloved. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) received several Academy Awards. Lee has insisted that the novel is a work of fiction, not autobiography. She protects her privacy, spe ...[Read Story]