Nelle Harper Lee was an American novelist whose 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature. Its plot and characters are loosely based on Lee's observations of her family and neighbors in Monroeville, Alabama, and on a childhood event near her hometown in 1936, and the novel addresses racist attitudes and the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s as seen through the eyes of two children. She assisted her close friend Truman Capote in researching his book In Cold Blood (1966), and received numerous honors including the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007 for her contribution to literature. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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AwardAlabama Women's Hall of Fame, 2019. 1 AwardNational Medal of Arts. 1 AwardPresidential Medal of Freedom, 2007. 1 AwardPulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1961. 1 Classification
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April 28, 1926 - February 19, 2016
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Nelle Harper Lee was an American novelist whose 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature.
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Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926, February 19, 2016) was an American novelist whose 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature. She assisted her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book In Cold Blood (1966). An earlier draft of Mockingbird, set at a later date, Go Set a Watchman, was published in July 2015 as a sequel.
Award: National Medal of Arts
Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926, February 19, 2016) was an American novelist whose 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature. She assisted her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book In Cold Blood (1966). An earlier draft of Mockingbird, set at a later date, Go Set a Watchman, was published in July 2015 as a sequel.
Award: Presidential Medal of Freedom
Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926, February 19, 2016) was an American novelist whose 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature. She assisted her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book In Cold Blood (1966). An earlier draft of Mockingbird, set at a later date, Go Set a Watchman, was published in July 2015 as a sequel.
Award: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926, February 19, 2016) was an American novelist whose 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature. She assisted her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book In Cold Blood (1966). An earlier draft of Mockingbird, set at a later date, Go Set a Watchman, was published in July 2015 as a sequel.
Award: Alabama Women's Hall of Fame
Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926, February 19, 2016) was an American novelist whose 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature. She assisted her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book In Cold Blood (1966). An earlier draft of Mockingbird, set at a later date, Go Set a Watchman, was published in July 2015 as a sequel.
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To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1960 Southern Gothic novel by American author Harper Lee.
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