Harper Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama, in 1926. She attended Huntingdon College and the University of Alabama, which she left one semester short of a degree. Her father, a lawyer, partly inspired the character of Atticus Finch.
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Go Set a Watchman, published in 2015, is an earlier draft of the novel, set about twenty years later. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007 and died in Monroeville in 2016.
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