To Kill a Mockingbird Post 1: About the Author

Harper Lee

Present day

Harper Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama in 1926. She is still alive today, and will be turning 89 in April, 2013.

"Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

To Kill a Mockingbird was Lee's first and last novel. Published in 1960, the book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1961, and was made into an Oscar winning feature film in 1962. After writing her hugely successful book, Lee retried the life of an author to live a quiet life secluded from the press.

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