Harper Lee is an American author that was born on April 28, 1922. She was born in Monroeville, Alabama to her father who was a lawyer and her mother that suffered from a mental disease. Harper Lee was childhood friends with Truman Capote who is also became an author. Lee expressed an interest in English literature in high school. She attended Huntingdon, for one year, an all-female college in Alabama. She was a member of the Literary Honor Society and the Glee club. Later she transferred to the University of Alabama and began to study law. She soon realized that writing was her true calling and moved to New York in 1950 to pursue her dreams of becoming a writer. After struggling for quite some time she was finally able to get her book, To Kill a Mocking Bird, published in 1960. It was voted "Best Novel of The Century" in 1999. Lee moved back to Alabama from New York. She declines all interview requests and rarely makes public appearances. To Kill a Mocking Bird was her first and last book.
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