Harper Lee: Author of To Kill a Mockingbird Dies at 89

Harper Lee was an American novelist. Born Nelle Harper Lee on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama, she was a childhood friend of Truman Capote.

Her only novel for decades, To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), won the Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of American literature and a film starring Gregory Peck. A second book, Go Set a Watchman, was published in 2015.

She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007. Lee died in her sleep in Monroeville on February 19, 2016, at age 89.

Achievements: Pulitzer Prize (1961), Presidential Medal of Freedom (2007).

Birth: April 28, 1926 - Monroeville, Alabama.

Profession: Novelist.

Interesting Facts: To Kill a Mockingbird has sold over 40 million copies.