5/11/2023 0 Comments To kill a mockingbird paperback![]() She spent the next two and a half years revising the book and in 1960 it was published to widespread acclaim, winning the Pulitzer Prize and thousands of devoted readers.ġ. Lippincott Company and was told that her novel read too much like a series of loosely connected short stories. In 1957 she submitted the manuscript to the J. ![]() ![]() She moved into a cold-water flat and began writing To Kill a Mockingbird. In the 1950s she moved to New York City where, after working briefly as an airline reservation clerk, she decided to focus exclusively on her writing. The youngest of four children of Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Finch Lee, Harper attended Huntingdon College 1944-45, studied law at University of Alabama 1945-49, and spent a year at Oxford University. (In 1966 Capote dedicated In Cold Blood to her). Harper Lee was the grade school classmate of the young Truman Capote, with whom she maintained a friendship well into adulthood. Nelle Harper Lee was born on Apin Monroeville Alabama, which produced two world-renowned authors in the same generation. ![]()
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