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Harper Lee

Harper Lee. To Kill a Mocking Bird. Early Life. Harper Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama. April 28,1926 Father owned part of the newspaper, state senator, and a lawyer. Mother supposedly had bipolar. Childhood friends. Truman Capote, was one of her best friends.

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Harper Lee

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  1. Harper Lee To Kill a Mocking Bird

  2. Early Life • Harper Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama. • April 28,1926 • Father owned part of the newspaper, state senator, and a lawyer. • Mother supposedly had bipolar.

  3. Childhood friends • Truman Capote, was one of her best friends. • He was also a fellow writer.

  4. College Life/ Early Adulthood • Started at a all girls school then transferred to the University of Alabama 1945-1949. • Literary Honors society • School newspaper • After she went to New York to pursue her dream as a writer.

  5. People who influenced her • The browns paid her a lot of money for her to write full time. • Helped her find an agent • Gotpublishers interested in her work

  6. Publishing of TKM • Book: July 1960 • Movie: 1962

  7. Awards • 2007, Presidential Medal of Freedom By George Bush • Pulitzer Prize in 1961

  8. Work cited • name:. "John Steinbeck."www.kirjasto.sci.fi . N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Oct. 2012. <http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/johnstei.htm>. • http://www.biography.com/people/harper-lee-9377021

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