Harper lee biography 50th anniversary

Before she was a Pulitzer Prize winner or donned the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Nelle Harper Lee lived in New York, working as a reservations clerk for Eastern Air Lines and British Overseas Airways while writing numerous unpublished essays and short stories.

When her literary agent encouraged her to develop one of those short stories into a novel, she quit working her full-time job to focus on her craft.

This week marks the 50th anniversary of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Lee's classic, read today in.

With To Kill a Mockingbird, published 50 years ago, Lee gave America a story for the ages.

Harper Lee was born in in Monroeville, Alabama.

Article on the reclusive Harper Lee making a public appearance in to honor high school students who wrote essays about “Mockingbird.” A.

Sunday is the 50th anniversary of the publication of Lee's “To Kill A Mockingbird,” and Monroeville is still a place rich with stories and.

By 1957, she had submitted the manuscript, and after several rounds of back and forth, edits, and reworking, “To Kill a Mockingbird” hit shelves in 1960, forever changing the landscape of American literature.

A year after the novel was published, over 500,000 copies had been sold and it had been translated into 10 languages.

This swift success is even more remarkable when we take into account the lack of technology and social marketing that existed in the 1960s. Harper Lee did very little promotion of the novel, as her nature was to let her work to speak for i