Saturday, 20 February 2016

Harper Lee 1926 - 2016

It is with great sadness that we learn of the death of Harper Lee author of To Kill a Mockingbird.

Nelle Harper Lee was born 28th April 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama, youngest of four children. To Kill a Mockingbird published in 1960 won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and became a classic of modern American Literature. Her follow up novel Go Set a Watchman was published to much acclaim in July 2015.  

George W. Bush awarded her the presidential medal of freedom in 2007. 

                                   

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