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Harper Lee

Also known as Nelle Harper Lee

American novelist (1926–2016)

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Harper Lee was an American novelist best known for writing *To Kill a Mockingbird*, one of the most widely read and taught books in American schools. Her work explored themes of racial injustice and moral growth in the American South, making a significant cultural impact on how readers understood race relations and ethics in America.

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Type: Person
Gender: Female
Origin: United States
Active from: 1920-05-26
Active to: 2002-01-21

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Quotes

“Well, they’re Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn’t dream of interrupting you at golf.”
“Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.”
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view — until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”
“As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.”
“And it's certainly bad, but when a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains. I don't know of any landowner around here who begrudges those children any game their father can hit. Of course he shouldn't, but he'll never change his ways. Are you going to take out your disapproval on his children?”

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Commons category: Harper Lee
date of birth: 1926-04-28
date of death: 2016-02-19
pseudonym: Harper Lee
name in native language: Nelle Harper Lee
short name: Harper Lee

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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. A collection of her short stories and essays, The Land of Sweet Forever, was published on October 21, 2025.

The plot and characters of To Kill a Mockingbird are loosely based on Lee's observations of her family and neighbors in Monroeville, Alabama, as well as a childhood event that occurred near her hometown in 1936. The novel deals with racist attitudes and the irrationality of adult attitudes towards race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s as depicted through the eyes of two children.