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 ...

HOMEWOOD, Ala. – To the world, Harper Lee was aloof to the point of being unknowable, an obsessively private person who spent most of her life avoiding the public gaze despite writing one of the ...

FILE – Author Harper Lee appears at a ceremony honoring new members of the Alabama Academy of Honor at the Capitol in Montgomery, Ala., on Aug. 20, 2007.

Ben Martin/Getty. Harper Lee author of Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird photographed in her New York apartment, July 1960.

Harper Lee, the acclaimed author who once professed her dream of being the "Jane Austen of South Alabama," was known for restraint when it came to sharing work.Throughout the course of Lee's 89 ...

Alabama historian Wayne Flynt holds a copy of his new book, “Afternoons with Harper Lee,” about the late author of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” at a book-signing in Homewood, Alabama.

A new book shows the personal side of the late “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee. Skip to main content. Open Main Menu Navigation. Open Search. Mostly Clear icon. 63 ...

HOMEWOOD, Ala. — To the world, Harper Lee was aloof to the point of being unknowable, an obsessively private person who spent most of her life avoiding the public gaze despite writing one of the ...

HOMEWOOD, Ala. (AP) — To the world, Harper Lee was aloof to the point of being unknowable, an obsessively private person who spent most of her life avoiding the public gaze despite writing one ...

Alabama historian Wayne Flynt signs a copy of his new book, "Afternoons with Harper Lee," about the late author of "To Kill a Mockingbird," at a book-signing in Homewood, Ala., on Thursday, Sept ...