"I think that perhaps there's an infusion or intrusion of landscape in [her] literature that might be similar to mine."
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Born in Alabama, (Nelle) Harper Lee attended Huntingdon College from 1944 to 1945, studied law at the University of Alabama from 1945 to 1949, and spent a year at Oxford University. In the 1950s, she worked as an airline clerk in New York while she worked on her novel, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. Initially rejected, the novel was finally published after two more years of rewriting, winning the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1961. A movie was made in 1962 starring Gregory Peck, who won an Academy Award more...
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04/28/1926 Alabama, Southeastern States, Southern States, United States,
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Part of curriculum in grade school....Boo Radley was our favourite name....found it fascinating at that time in my history and still have it on one of my bookshelves. Should be on everyone's list.........pushed the boundaries then in the 1960's Toronto.....morals, ethics, illness, racial issues....................wonderful.