Harper Lee: The 20th Century's Super Woman

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Harper Lee: The 20th Century’s Super Woman.

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…” (Lee, 39) Nelle Harper Lee, born on April 28, 1926, grew up in Monroeville, Alabama. In 1960, at age 32, Lee published her Pulitzer prize-winning novel ‘To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee led a successful life, including the publishings of two novels, until her death in 2016. Named after her grandmother, Ellen, Nelle Harper Lee, was born to Frances Cunningham Finch (mother) and Amasa Coleman Lee (father). Her father was a lawyer, and her mother suffered from a mental illness. Lee had 3 siblings; one brother and two sisters. In Monroeville, a boy moved into the house next to hers. This boy, Truman Capote,

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