Harper Lee

Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama, a village that is still her home. She attended local schools and the University of Alabama. Before she started writing she lived in New York, where she worked in the reservations department of an international airline.

She has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, two honorary degrees and various other literary awards. Most recently she won a National Medal of the Arts in America for integrity in both creativity and scholarship.