https://padlet.com/100143939/nqswuv47go6m Made with eyes on the prize en-us 2019-01-09 19:02:15 UTC 2025-10-11 13:36:43 UTC hello@padlet.com 100143939 https://padlet.com/100143939/nqswuv47go6m/wish/318959732 Born on April 28 ,1926 in Monroeville, AL
Died on February 19,2016
RIP             AGE 86 ]]> 2019-01-09 19:04:33 UTC https://padlet.com/100143939/nqswuv47go6m/wish/318959732 100143939 https://padlet.com/100143939/nqswuv47go6m/wish/318965249 Harper's father Amasa Coleman Lee who was a lawyer and Lee’s mother Frances Cunningham Finch who was suffering with  psychological ailments caused a big impact to her life .She was the youngest among four children and her siblings were named Alice, Louise and Edwin. When young she befriended a long-life friend named  Truman Streckfus Persons who also became a writer, Truman also faced domestic problems when young which led them to connected through their grievances .  After completing schooling she enrolled in Huntingdon college then University of Alabama for law but then decided to go to Oxford university to do writing instead .]]> 2019-01-09 19:13:51 UTC https://padlet.com/100143939/nqswuv47go6m/wish/318965249 100143939 https://padlet.com/100143939/nqswuv47go6m/wish/319089428 Harper had many obstacles throughout her journey , After leaving Oxford University without a degree she moved to New York where she worked as an airline reservationist and had been having financial issues but not until her friends gave her a hand which solved her money issues and allowed her to write full-time that led to a series with short stories transforming To KiIl A Mocking Bird with some help from an editor .]]> 2019-01-10 04:50:44 UTC https://padlet.com/100143939/nqswuv47go6m/wish/319089428 100143939 https://padlet.com/100143939/nqswuv47go6m/wish/319090614 After receiving Pulitzer prize and selling more than 30 million copies world wide over the novel To Kill A Mocking Bird that is based of a perspective of a young girl who learns the principles of racial justice and talks about her fathers case that involves a black man being falsely accuse over raping a white girl. The novel ends up making huge headlines even lands a film on it during 1962.After a while Harper helps Truman with a novel that is based off of the Murders of The Clutter Family which ends up being in the compositions of In Cold Blood being successful but causing a fallout in their friendship when Harpers contributions to the book were unsaid but then later reconnect. Harper Lee is later on given the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007 .]]> 2019-01-10 05:06:43 UTC https://padlet.com/100143939/nqswuv47go6m/wish/319090614 100143939 https://padlet.com/100143939/nqswuv47go6m/wish/319092195 Harper decides to settle in her hometown after being in New York and leave spotlight behind . Ends up writing some short essays like Romance and High Adventure in 1983 about Alabama History and finally Go Set A Watchman which is likely a sequel to ; To A Kill a Mocking Bird . Talks about Scott being a grown women and coming back to her hometown to visit her father, but was not published until 2015 .]]> 2019-01-10 05:25:51 UTC https://padlet.com/100143939/nqswuv47go6m/wish/319092195