Author

Books by Harper Lee

Harper Lee (1926–2016) grew up in Monroeville, Alabama, and based much of To Kill a Mockingbird on her childhood there, including a neighbor who became the model for Dill. She was a close friend of Truman Capote and assisted him with his research for In Cold Blood. To Kill a Mockingbird won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and has sold more than 45 million copies. Lee published almost nothing for decades afterward; Go Set a Watchman, her earlier draft of the Mockingbird story, was published in 2015, a year before her death, under contested circumstances.