Harper Lee, the reclusive author of To Kill a Mockingbird, has died at the age of 89. The news was first confirmed by the mayor's office in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. The novelist was born Nelle Harper Lee on 28 April 1926. In 1960, she published To Kill a Mockingbird, a huge critical and commercial success which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. A sequel Go Set a Watchman, was published in 2015. To Kill a Mockingbird sold more than 40 million copies worldwide. Lee was born 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She was the youngest of four children of lawyer Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch Lee. She was a guardedly private person, respected and protected by residents of her town, rarely giving interviews. Lee's literary agent Andrew Nurnberg said: "Knowing Nelle these past few years has been not just an utter delight but an extraordinary privilege. "When I saw her just six weeks ago, she was full of life, her mi...
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