Harper Lee

A) Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, to Amasa Coleman

 Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch Lee. She grew up in the small 

southwestern Alabama town of Monroeville. Her father who was once 

a newspaper editor and proprietor later became a lawyer who also 

served on the state legislature. When Harper was a child, she loved

 to read and she made many friends.

B) Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926 in Monroeville Alabama.

She was the youngest of four children born to Amasa Coleman Lee

 and Frances Finch Lee.

She studied in Huntingdon College for one year and she studied law

 at the University of Alabama fr 4 years, and studied 1 year at Oxford 

University.

In the 1950s she worked as a reservation clerk with Eastern Air Lines

 and BOAC in New York City.

In 1957 Lee submitted the manuscript of her novel to the
 J. B. Lippincott Company.

After being instructed to rewrite it, Lee worked on it for two and

 a half more years

In 1960 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, Lee's only book, was published.

In 1961 she had two articles published: "Love --- In Other Words"

 in Vogue, and "Christmas To Me" in McCalls.

 In June of 1966, Harper Lee was one of two persons named by

 President Johnson to the National Council of Arts. 

C) She wrote the following

To Kill a Mockingbird.

Christmas to Me.

When Children Discover America.

Cold Blood.

The Long Goodbye.

D) Pulitzer Prize (1961)

Brotherhood Award of the National Conference
 of Christians and Jews (1961)

Alabama Library Association Award (1961)

Bestsellers Paperback of the Year Award (1962)

Member, National Council on the Arts (1966)

Best Novel of the Century, Library Journal (1999)

Alabama Humanities Award (2002)

ATTY Award, Spector Gadon & Rosen Foundation (2005)

Los Angeles Public Library Literary Award (2005)

Honorary degree, University of Notre Dame (2006)

American Academy of Arts and Letters (2007)

Presidential Medal of Freedom (2007)

E) To Kill a Mockingbird was written and published amidst the 

most significant and conflict-ridden social change in the South

 since the Civil War and Reconstruction. Inevitably, despite its

 mid-1930s setting, the story told from the perspective of the

 1950s voices the conflicts, tensions, and fears induced by this

 transition.