Harper Lee
Harper Lee
Nelle Harper Lee, better known by her pen name Harper Lee, was an American novelist widely known for To Kill a Mockingbird, published in 1960. Immediately successful, it won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern American literature. Though Lee had only published this single book, in 2007 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to literature. Additionally, Lee received numerous honorary degrees, though she declined to speak on those occasions. She...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 April 1926
CityMonroeville, AL
CountryUnited States of America
...but sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down...
I'm little but I'm old.
I don't hafta take his sass
We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us.
Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.
...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.
I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to.
I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.
You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.
Southern lawyers don't read novels much.
summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat;it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.
Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood,
She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.