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Harper Lee by: Chelsea, Paige, Kayla, and Kimberly

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Harper Lee's Early Life: Education: After College Middle Age http://teenreads.com/authors/au-lee-harper.asp http://library.thinkquest.org/2847/authors/lee.htm http://www.nndb.com/people/572/000025497/ http://www.enotes.com/authors/harper-lee
 * born April 28, 1926 - present
 * Parents - Amaso Coleman Lee; Frances Finch Lee
 * Raised in Monroeville, Southwest Alabama
 * Harper Lee's father served as a state senate
 * Mother was a housewife
 * Alice and Louis Lee and Edwin Lee are Harper Lees 2 sisters and brother
 * Didn't complete her degree
 * Became interested in writing
 * Went to an agent that told her her stories were good
 * Then wrote a novel
 * Out of college by 1930
 * Wrote 'To Kill a Mocking Bird'
 * Was complete by 1960
 * Went to Nations Council of Arts for popularity of the book
 * Assisted her friend Truman Capote in writing his novel, "In Cold Blood"
 * In 1962 To Kill a Mockingbird was turned into a major motion picture
 * To Kill a Mockingbird was banned from one of the Virginia schools because of the subject of rape. Lee then defended her book because she believed they had a different idea bout her book
 * She is presently living with her sister Louis
 * She rarely makes appearances and declines from interview requests
 * To Kill a Mockingbird was on the best sellers list and sold 30,000,000 copies, and was translated in more than 40 languages.