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  • Harper Lee dead at age of 89: 'To Kill a Mockingbird Author' passes away

    02/19/2016 7:51:13 AM PST · by Borges · 113 replies
    AL.com ^ | 2/19/2016 | Connor Sheets
    Nelle Harper Lee, who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1961 for her book, "To Kill a Mockingbird," has died at the age of 89, multiple sources in her hometown of Monroeville confirmed Friday morning. Lee was born April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, the youngest of four children of lawyer Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch Lee. As a child, Lee attended elementary school and high school just a few blocks from her house on Alabama Avenue. In a March 1964 interview, she offered this capsule view of her childhood: "I was born in a little town called...