Alabama's Nelle Harper Lee is known for her book, "To Kill a Mockingbird," and shares many similar life experiences with her ...

Miss Nelle, as she’s known around town (she went ... The first edition of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, published in 1960. The Granger Collection, New York The success of To Kill a ...

Harper Lee is the award-winning author of the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Nelle Harper Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama in 1926. As a young child, she witnessed prejudice, which initially ...

For years before she published “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Harper Lee wrote short stories with themes that she would later explore in that now-classic novel: small town gossip and politics ...