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Atticus Finch during his case in defending Tom Robinson, in "To Kill A Mockingbird"

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Harper Lee has won the Pulitzer prize for fiction, Presidential medal of freedom, Good reads choice awards best fiction, and the Quill award for audio book.

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In 2009, Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird once outsold the Bible.

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Harper Lee was related to Robert Lee, a commander from Civil War.

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The book has many relations to Lee's actual life when she grew up; her father was a lawyer, she was very similar to Scout, and has a brother.

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"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view"

"Until I feared i would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love reading"

"Real courage is when you know you're liked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what"

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There is a song that was made after "To Kill A Mockingbird"

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To Kill A Mockingbird has sold more than 40 million copies and is still selling to this day

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- People claim the book was not autobiographical and that it was inspired by her life.

- Lee's father was a southern lawyer like Atticus and she was very much a tomboy like Scout.

- She also had a best friend visit her in the summer like Dill.

- During her life time she was very against racial inequality so tried to include equality in To Kill A Mockingbird as a theme.

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Harper Lee died on February 19, 2016, at the age of 89. Her nephew, Hank Connor, said the author died in her sleep at an assisted living facility in Monroeville.

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In her family she had her mother, father, two sisters, and one brother

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In November 2007, President George W. Bush presented Lee with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her "outstanding contribution to America's literary tradition" at a ceremony at the White House.

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She has also wrote Go Set a Watchman, which is a sequel to "To Kill a Mockingbird."

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- For most of Lee's life, her mother suffered from mental illness, rarely leaving the house.
- She was the youngest of four children, and her father was a lawyer.
-She grew up as a tomboy, which is a girl that enjoys rough, noisy activities associated with boys.

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One of Lee's most famous books she has written.

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Born April 28, 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama and she died on February 19th, 2016, at 89 years old.