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On April 28, 1926, Nelle Harper Lee was born in Alabama, a state riddled with racism and protests against racial discrimination. As a child, she was friends with future writer and partner Truman Persons/Capote, and was a tomboy, often being able to fight off other boys. Her dad was a lawyer, while her mom had mental issues.

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In 1944, Harper Lee went to a college to study Literature, a passion she picked up in high school. Despite going to an all girl's college, she was not concerned at all about fashion, or what the other's were interested in - she instead joined the literary honor society, the glee club, the school newspaper club, and studied hard.

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In college, Lee wrote for the school's newspaper. Although her parents, specifically her father, wanted her to study law, she informed her parents that she thought that writing was her passion, and she dropped out of law school. When she made friends with Michael Martin Brown, she was given an opportunity to achieve her goals, and with his monetary support, wrote the book, To Kill a Mockingbird

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Being friends from childhood, Lee continued to work with Capote, and helped him write his novel, In Cold Blood. They went a town in Kansas, to write about the murder of a family. Being easygoing and friendly, Harper Lee was able to interview the townspeople for Capote.

Lee assisted Capote in taking notes at the trials of the murderers, and the interviews of the townspeople, killers, and local communities.

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Multiple Plotlines
Scout, Jem, and Dill explore a mysterious person in their neighborhood, and this conveys the theme of growing up.

Scout's father, Atticus, tries to help a black man from being convicted from a crime he did not commit, which conveys the theme of racial injustice and prejudice.

Harper Lee based Scout, the story's central character, on herself, and Scout's dad, Atticus, was largely based on Lee's father, a lawyer.
After 4 years of writing the book, Harper Lee won the Pulitzer Prize, while the Film Adaptation of the novel won 3 awards.

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Harper Lee, despite making millions, led a frugal life with her sister, Alice Lee. She joined the National Council of the Arts, but in the 70s, she retreated to a private life split between New York City and Monroeville.

Although she was working on another novel, it never got published, and before she died, she managed to publish a sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird.

Harper Lee was known to have made many anonymous donations to charitable causes, being active in her church, avoiding the spotlight of her celebrity status.