Nelle Harper Lee, usually called Harper Lee, is an American novelist. She’s the youngest of five kids and was best friends with Truman Capote at a youthful age. Harper Lee’s only published novel is To Kill a Mockingbird, printed in 1960. The novel was broadly successful, earning Lee a Pulitzer Prize in fiction and selling more than 40 million copies world-wide. It remains a classic in American literature and is among the very powerful novels ever. Lee recently declared that her follow up to the novel, Go Set a Watchman, is set to be published on July 14, 2015. It’s safe to presume that Lee brought in over $3 million in 2013 and 2014! To Kill a Mockingbird was immediately adapted into a film by the exact same name in 1962. Just how much is Harper Lee’s Net Worth? $35 Million!
February 19, 2016, Monroeville, Alabama, United States
Place Of Birth
Monroeville, Alabama, United States
Profession
Writer, Novelist, Author
Education
Monroe County High School (1944)
Nationality
United States of America
Parents
Frances Cunningham Finch, Amasa Coleman Lee
Siblings
Alice Lee, Louise Lee Conner, Edwin Lee
Nicknames
Nelle Harper Lee , Nelle Harper E. Lee
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Goodreads Choice Awards Best Fiction, Quill Award for Audio book
Nominations
National Book Award for Fiction
Movies
To Kill a Mockingbird
Star Sign
Taurus
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Quote
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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[on 'To Kill a Mockingbird'] It is and it isn't autobiographical. The trial, and the rape case charge that brings on the trial, are made out of a composite of such cases and charges. What I did present as exactly as I could was the clime and tone, as I remembered them, of the town in which I lived. From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.
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Before I can live with other folks, I've got to live with myself.The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through, no matter what.
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They're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf.
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Many receive advice. Only the wise profit from it.
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Fact
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(March 2008 - 2014) She lived with her sister and attorney, Alice Finch Lee, in Monroeville, Alabama, until Alice Lee's death in 2014 at age 103.
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Made a rare appearance at the insistence of her friend Veronique Peck, widow of Gregory Peck. She was honored by the Los Angeles Public Library at a benefit dinner to raise funds for computers and literacy programs. The award was presented by Brock Peters, who portrayed the black man falsely accused of rape in the film To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). [May 2005]
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She was awarded the 2010 National Medal of the Arts for her services to literature.
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Her second published novel, "Go Set A Watchman," was actually the first one she wrote. In it, Scout and Jem, the main characters from her first published novel, "To Kill A Mockingbird," are already adults. When she first presented it to her agent, he told her the characters were interesting, but the story was not. She was instructed to write about the characters when they were younger. The result was her first published novel, "To Kill A Mockingbird," which was made into the film To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). The discovery of the manuscript for "Go Set A Watchman" in late 2014, resulted in investigations by the State of Alabama, into whether she was mentally competent to consent to it being published. Despite suffering from a stroke and macular degeneration, she repeatedly said yes.
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Her book, "To Kill a Mockingbird," was banned from advanced placement English courses in Lindale, Texas, in 1996, because it "conflicted with the values of the community".
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Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on November 6, 2007 by President George W. Bush.
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Her novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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Was Truman Capote's personal assistant when he went to Garden City, Kansas, to investigate the Clutter murders in Holcomb, Kansas - which became his bestselling book, "In Cold Blood," and at least two films: In Cold Blood (1967) and In Cold Blood (1996). Lee and Capote were childhood friends.
$35 Million
