Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1962 in Monroeville, Alabama.
She is the youngest of 4 children and is also a descendant of Robert E. Lee, a .
general of the civil war. Harper's father was a newspaper editor and lawer .
who once served as a state senator. Harper also studied law in the University .
of Alabama from 1945 to 1950. She also spent a year as an exchange student .
in Oxford University,Wellington Square. Before 6 months of finishing her .
studies, she decided to pursue a literary career so she then went to New .
York. During the 1950's in NY, she worked as a airline reservation clerk with .
Eastern Air Lines and British Overseas Airways. .
Harper wanted to concentrate with her writing so she decided to give .
up her position as a clerk in order to have more time to write her books. .
Harper Lee submitted her novel, To Kill a Mocking Bird, in 1957. After two .
years, her novel was finally published. In June of 1966, President Johnson .
named Harper Lee to the National Council of Arts. Her book, To Kill a Mocking .
Bird, was also awarded the Pultzer Prize in 1961. In her book, the characters .
are inspired by the people in her life. "Harper Lee did not live to see her 50th .
birthday, but her remarkable novel which continued the best traditions of the .
American authors who wrote about America's South - Mark Twain, William .
Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell and many others - will forever belong in the .
treasure of progressive American literature.".
In Monroeville, Alabama, in April of 1939, Nelle Harper Lee was born. ... Then in 1957, Nelle Harper Lee submitted To Kill a Mocking Bird to an editor. ... So three years later in 1960, Nelle Harper Lee resubmitted To Kill a Mocking Bird. ... For one Nelle Harper Lee was a tomboy. ... One it was where Nelle Harper Lee grew up and two there was a trial there near the end of the Great Depression. ...
Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, in the town of Monroeville, Alabama. She was born as the youngest of four children to her parents, Amasa and Frances Lee. Lee's childhood was very similar to the Scout character in To Kill a Mockingbird, mainly in her hometown's similarity to the town of...
Mockingbird Characters Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama, a small town similar to Maycomb, the setting of To Kill a Mockingbird. Lee began writing To Kill A Mockingbird in the mid-1950's, and she completed the novel in 1957. Her novel was published in 1960, jus...