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Harper Lee

(1926 - 2016)

Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She attended local schools and the University of Alabama. Before she started writing she lived in New York, where she worked in the reservations department of an international airline. She has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, two honorary degrees and various other literary awards.

Awards: Pulitzer (1961) see all

Genres: Literary Fiction

Series

To Kill a Mockingbird
1. To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
2. Go Set a Watchman (2015)

Awards

1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction : To Kill a Mockingbird

Award nominations

2016 British Book Award Fiction Book of the Year (nominee) : Go Set a Watchman

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Chicken Dreaming Corn (2004)
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"Read this novel to find, from Europe and the past, characters who represent some of the best aspects of our Southern heritage. A story of great appeal in prose lean and clean. Congratulations to Roy Hoffman for his fine work."

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