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Harper Lee biography

Harper Lee was an American author best known for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird, published in 1960 by J.B. Lippincott & Co. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961. To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages and has sold over forty million copies worldwide. The book is widely studied in schools and has been adapted into a 1962 film directed by Robert Mulligan, which won three Academy Awards.

Lee attended Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama, and later studied law at the University of Alabama. She worked as an airline reservation agent in New York City before focusing on her writing. In 2007, Lee was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to literature.

In 2015, HarperCollins published Lee’s second novel, Go Set a Watchman, which was written before To Kill a Mockingbird but is set two decades later. Go Set a Watchman became a bestseller upon release.

Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird remains her most recognised work and continues to receive critical and popular acclaim.