Mini Biography
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, speaks through her literary agent, McIntosh and Otis, does not appear on television and does not give interviews. She lives in Monroeville, Alabama and New York.
Mini Biography By:
Eileen Berdon