Lee, Harper

Harper Lee,
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Name	Lee, Harper Gender: F
Birthname	Nelle Harper Lee
born on	28 April 1926 at 17:25 (= 5:25 PM )
Place	Monroeville, Alabama, 31n32, 87w19
Timezone	CST h6w (is standard time)
Data source	Quoted BC/BR Rodden Rating AA Collector: CAH
Astrology data	07°54' 19°34 Asc. 25°48'

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Harper Lee

Biography

American author of the 1961 Pulitzer Prize novel "To Kill a Mockingbird." The novel was made into an Oscar-winning film the following year starring Gregory Peck and has since been translated into ten foreign languages with a 74th printing in 1974.

Lee was the youngest of four children of Amasa Coleman Lee, a lawyer, and homemaker mother Frances Cunningham Finch. After attending Huntingdon College from 1944-1945, she studied law at the University of Alabama from 1945-1949, and spent one year at Oxford University. During the '50s she was employed as a reservation agent for Eastern Airlines in York City.

Deciding to put all her energy into writing, Lee left her job with the airlines and moved into a cold-water flat with makeshift furniture. When her beloved father suddenly became ill, she divided her time between New York and Monroeville, a practice she still continues.

In 1957, Lee submitted her completed manuscript to J.B. Lippincott Company. She was told that her novel consisted of a series of short stories that were strung together and was encouraged to rewrite it. After re-working the manuscript, two and a half years later "To Kill A Mockingbird" was finally published in 1960 and remained until 2015 Lee's only published book. In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Lee to the National Council for the Arts.

Lee is as famous for her quiet lifestyle as she is for her novel. When asked why she never wrote another book, she replied, "When you have a hit like that, you can't go anywhere but down." Never granting interviews, Lee's main activities are said to be 19th century literature, 18th century music, cats, traveling - and protecting her privacy.

On 14 July 2015 Harper Lee's second novel "Go Set a Watchman" was released. Initially promoted by its publisher as a sequel, it is now more widely accepted as a first draft of "To Kill a Mockingbird."

Lee died in her sleep on the morning of 19 February 2016 in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, aged 89.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Relationships

• friend relationship with Capote, Truman (born 30 September 1924)

• (has as) benefactor relationship with Brown, Michael (writer) (born 14 December 1920)

• role played of/by Bullock, Sandra (born 26 July 1964). Notes: 2006 film "Infamous"

Events

• Social : Begin a program of study 1944 (Attended Huntingdon College)

• Social : Begin a program of study 1945 (Four years at Univ. of Alabama)

• Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1957 (First submission of manuscript)

• Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 11 July 1960 ("To Kill A Mockingbird" released in print)
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• Work : Prize May 1961 (Pulitzer Prize for Literature)
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• Work : New Job 1966 (Appointed to the Ntnl. Council to the Arts)

• Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1974 (74th reprint of book)

• Work : Prize 5 November 2007 (Presidential Medal of Freedom)
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• Work : Prize 2010 (National Medal of Arts)

• Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 14 July 2015 ("Go Set a Watchman" published)
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• Death, Cause unspecified 19 February 2016 (Age 89)
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Source Notes

Contemporary American Horoscopes

Categories

• Traits : Personality : Private (Protects her privacy)

• Family : Childhood : Order of birth (Fourth of four)

• Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs (Age 89)

• Vocation : Business : Clerical/ Secretarial (Reservation agent for airlines, initially)

• Vocation : Politics : Government employee (Ntnl. Council to the Arts)

• Vocation : Writers : Fiction

• Notable : Awards : Medals (Presidential Medal of Freedom)

• Notable : Awards : Medals (National Medal of Arts)

• Notable : Awards : Pulitzer prize (1961)

• Notable : Famous : Notable extremes (74 printings of her prize book)

• Notable : Book Collection : Profiles Of Women