{"id":3147,"date":"2016-02-26T14:24:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T19:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cecilesune.com\/?p=3147"},"modified":"2018-12-09T21:21:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T02:21:28","slug":"rip-harper-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cecilesune.com\/rip-harper-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Harper Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Harper<\/a>Last week, I learnt with sadness about the passing of Harper Lee. Her book To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em> is a favorite of mine and is, in my opinion, one of the best American classics.<\/p>\n

Born Nelle Harper Lee on 28 April 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama, she was the youngest of 4 children. Her father was a lawyer, perhaps the inspiration for Atticus Finch. Her mother suffered from mental illness, and it couldn’t have been an easy childhood for the author. In addition, as Harper Lee\u00a0was a tomboy, she had few friends as she didn’t have\u00a0the same interests as other girls her age. That’s probably one of the reasons why she became best friend with her\u00a0neighbor Truman Capote, another outsider. Later on, she studied law at the University of Alabama. In 1949, she\u00a0decided to drop out in order to write and moved to New York City. She worked as an airline ticket clerk to pay the bills and hung out with Truman Capote who had also relocated\u00a0there. In fact, she helped him with his research for\u00a0In Cold Blood<\/em>. In 1960, she published To Kill a Mockingbird,<\/em>\u00a0and it won the\u00a0Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1961. The film adaptation of the book came out in 1962 and won 3 Oscars.<\/p>\n

Harper Lee rarely granted interviews and led a quiet life. Never married, she lived in a modest apartment in New York where she traveled by bus. She mostly\u00a0used her money to make anonymous charitable donations. In 2007, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. However, she suffered a stroke that same year and had to move into an assisted living facility in Monroeville. In 2015, Go Set a Watchman<\/em> was published. The author died peacefully in her sleep on 19 February 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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