Lee, who never married, lived for many years with her sister, Alice, who was a lawyer and gatekeeper for Harper. Alice died in a nursing home last year at the age of 103. Featured Weekly Ad ...

To Kill a Mockingbird was the Huckleberry Finn of the 20th century," said Charles J. Shields, author of a 2006 biography, Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee. "It redirected American’s gaze ...

Alabama's Nelle Harper Lee is known for her book, "To Kill a Mockingbird," and shares many similar life experiences with her main character, Scout Finch. Lee grew up in the 1930s in Monroeville ...

Harper Lee, the Alabama-born novelist whose Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller To Kill a Mockingbird has been a mainstay of American educational reading lists since its publication in 1960, died ...

Harper Lee, the Alabama author who is known for her incredibly influential book To Kill A Mockingbird, passed away today at age 89, multiple sources from her hometown of Monroeville told AL.com.

Nelle Harper Lee, author: born Monroeville, Alabama 28 April 1926; died Monroeville 19 February 2016. More about Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird Truman Capote. Join our commenting forum.

Author Harper Lee, known to friends as Nelle, is shown in her assisted-living facility in 2010. The 88-year-old will publish a second novel in July. (Penny Weaver / Associated Press) ...

Until recently, Harper Lee was a one-book author, albeit the writer of one of America’s most popular novels, “To Kill a Mockingbird.” With Tuesday’s release of “Go Set a Watchman,” she ...

The mockingbird will sing again. Harper Lee, the reclusive 88-year-old author who penned the brilliant novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” in 1960, is coming out with her second novel, to be … ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Harper Lee, the elusive novelist whose child's-eye view of racial injustice in a small Southern town, "To Kill a Mockingbird," became standard reading for millions of young ...

Author Nelle Harper Lee, who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1961 for her book, "To Kill a Mockingbird," passed away in her sleep Friday morning at the age of 89, her family has confirmed.