“The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.” – Harper Lee
Harper Lee is an
American novelist widely known for her 1960 Pulitzer Prize winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Her work
emphasizes tolerance and decries prejudice and also addresses issues of class,
courage, compassion, and gender roles in the American Deep South. Her one and
only published novel was considered an astonishing phenomenon by several
authors and public figures and has already received multiple awards, countless
medals, and numerous honorary degrees.
Harper Lee was
then 34 years old when she received the Pulitzer Prize and after 60 years of
just having a single published book she is coming back with a big announcement
that her phenomenal book will be having a sequel Go Set a Watchman and is scheduled to be published mid-July 2015.
Exciting right?
Now, let’s get to know more about this Southern Gothic Novelist.
Personal
Life
Complete Name:
Nelle Harper Lee
Born: April 28,
1926 (age 88)
Birth Place:
Monroeville, Alabama
Occupation:
Novelist
Subject:
Literature
Literary Movement:
Southern Gothic
Notable Works: To
Kill a Mockingbird
Father: Amasa
Coleman Lee
Mother: Frances
Cunningham
"Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before
you can call yourself a writer.
There are people who write, but I think they're quite different from
people who must write."
–
Harper Lee
Academic
Secondary
Education: Monroe County High School
College:
University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa (undergraduate)
Books
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1960). Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott.
- Go Set a Watchman (2015).
“Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.” – Harper Lee
Articles
- "Love—In Other Words". (April 15, 1961) Vogue, pp. 64–65
- "Christmas to Me". (December 1961) McCall's
- "When Children Discover America". (August 1965) McCall's
- "Romance and High Adventure" (1983), a paper presented in Eufaula, Alabama, and collected in 1985 in the anthology Clearings in the Thicket.
- Open letter to Oprah Winfrey (July 2006), O: The Oprah Magazine
Movies
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
- Pulitzer Prize (1961)
- Brotherhood Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews (1961)
- Alabama Library Association Award (1961)
- Bestsellers Paperback of the Year Award (1962)
- Member, National Council on the Arts (1966)
- Best Novel of the Century, Library Journal (1999)
- Alabama Humanities Award (2002)
- ATTY Award, Spector Gadon & Rosen Foundation (2005)
- Los Angeles Public Library Literary Award (2005)
- Honorary degree, University of Notre Dame (2006)
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (2007)
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (2007)
- National Medal of Arts (2010)
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