Author Harper Lee was born April 28th, 1926 in Monroeville, a small town in Alabama of which she based the setting of her novel To Kill a Mockingbird on. As a child, she was a tom-boy, and was good friends with controversial writer Truman Capote. She later attended the all-female Huntingdon College, where she was struggled to fit in with the fashion obsessed girls. She transferred to University of Alabama, and became the editor of their humor magazine, Rammer Jammer. After pursuing a law degree, she realized that writing was her passion. She then transferred to Oxford in England. In 1960, Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird became an instant hit, and won a Pulitzer Prize. The movie adaptation received 8 Academy Award nominations, although it was not very enjoyed by Lee herself. Lee is still alive, and has not written another book.
I had actually seen some of those same things that you had, had. I found her bio to be very interesting because she had lived a hard life and stuff which I never knew. Did you actually know that she was close to publishing another book, but she never actually did.
ReplyDeleteDan I enjoyed reading this informative biography of wrter Harper Lee. As you explained in her stay at Huntingdon College, it was seen early on that she did not exactly fit in with the early girls. I guess it is fitting that Lee became good friends with another famous, and as you said "controversial", writer in Truman Capote. I found it humorous that the movie adaptation for To Kill A Mockingbird was critically acclaimed and recieved eith Academy Award nominations, yet Harper Lee disapproved of it!
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