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Biography of Harper Lee

Biography of Harper Lee. by: JaQuan Owens. Major Life Events. Apr. 28 1926 Nelle Harper Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama the youngest of four children.

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Biography of Harper Lee

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  1. Biography of Harper Lee by: JaQuan Owens

  2. Major Life Events • Apr. 28 1926 Nelle Harper Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama the youngest of four children. • In 1932, Lee befriends a boy in her neighborhood named Truman Streckfus Persons, an eccentric child sent to live with relatives in Monroeville. They bond instantly. Their friendship lasts for decades. • In 1945, Lee transfers from Huntingdon College to the University of Alabama, where she plans to pursue a law degree. She dislikes law, but enjoys working for the campus newspaper and humor magazine. • 1949, Lee quits law school and moves to New York City to pursue a career as a writer. • In 1959 , Lee travels with her childhood friend Truman Capote to Holcomb, Kansas, to help research a story he is writing about the murder of a wealthy farming family, the Clutters. Capote eventually turns the work into a non-fiction narrative book entitled In Cold Blood. • July 11th , 1960 To Kill A Mockingbird,is published by J.B. Lippincott Company. • November 5th , President George W. Bush presents Harper Lee with the Presidential Medal of Freedom 2007.

  3. Achievements • Harper lee won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961. • Also won the Brotherhood Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews in 1961. • Won the Bestsellers Paperback of the Year Award in 1962. • In 1999, she won the Best Novel of the Century, Library Journal. • Harper lee won Alabama Humanities Award in 2002. • 2005, won ATTY Award, SpectorGadon & Rosen Foundation • She won the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007 .

  4. Education • In 1950 , Lee supports herself in New York with jobs at the reservation desks of Eastern Air Lines and British Overseas Airways Corporation. She works for these airlines for several years while writing takes a back seat. • May 2007 , Harper Lee is inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an honor society of 250 architects, composers, artists, and writers. Nomination to the Academy is deemed the highest formal recognition of artistic talent and accomplishment in the country. • Went to Huntingdon College from 1944-1945 • Went to the University of Alabama from 1945-1949

  5. Influences • Many believe that Lee was influenced by what influences many writers and that was her own personal experience. In addition, Lee wanted to say something about the civil rights movement which was at its height in 1960 when the book was published. Even though the setting of the book is in the 1930's, the novel has much to say about the fair treatment of all people, especially African-Americans.

  6. bibliography • http://www.shmoop.com/harper-lee/timeline.html • http://www.gradesaver.com/author/harper-lee/ • http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-influenced-harper-lee-write-novel-kill-389305

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