Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama, a village that is still her home. She attended local schools and the University of Alabama. Before she started writing she lived in New York, where she worked in the reservations department of an international airline. She has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, two honorary degrees and various other literary awards. Her chief interests apart from writing are nineteenth-century literature and eighteenth-century music, watching politicians and cats, travelling and being alone.
Her new book, Go Set a Watchman, was written in the mid-1950s and is the sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird.
Her new book, Go Set a Watchman, was written in the mid-1950s and is the sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird.
