Harper Lee

Hey guys! I'm back!:D Well, all these posts are related to the book, titled : "To Kill A Mockingbird".
The author is well respected and her name is Harper Lee! And, I am going to report her in my this blog post! Comment and ENJOY!:D

Harper Lee

Who is she? Why and how did she became famous? Well, I'm going to answer all those doubts in this blog post. Harper Lee, well she is an American Author, best known for her first and only book, :"To Kill A Mockingbird". The book deals with the issues of racism that were observed by the author as a child in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. Nelle Harper Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama, the youngest of four children of Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch Lee.As a child, Lee was a tomboy and a precocious reader, and was best friends with her schoolmate and neighbor, the young Truman Capote. She pursued a Law degree at the University of Alabama from 1945 to 1949, including a year abroad at Oxford University. After graduation, she worked for an airline in New York,but she soon decided she wanted to be a full time writer. She gave up her position with the airline and moved into a cold-water apartment with makeshift furniture. It took her 2 years to revisit and rewrite the novel once she had completed the draft.

Through this novel she had published, she had won quite a number of awards such as the Presidential Medal of Freedom of United States and also the 1961 Pulitzer Prize. Not only that, To kill a mockingbird was also made into a film. To Kill a Mockingbird was significant to Harper Lee was because she wrote truthfully what she saw and what she knew. The book was greatly written about Slavery and discrimination towards the Blacks in America during her days.

So why is the book, " To kill a Mockingbird'' ? It is because it was the first and only auto-biographical.