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| Harper Lee: US author of To Kill a Mockingbird dies aged 89 | |
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| Harper Lee, the reclusive author of To Kill a Mockingbird, has died at the age of 89. | |
| The news was confirmed by the mayor's office in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. | The news was confirmed by the mayor's office in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. |
| The novelist was born Nelle Harper Lee on 28 April 1926. | The novelist was born Nelle Harper Lee on 28 April 1926. |
| In 1960, she published To Kill a Mockingbird, which was a huge critical and commercial success and won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The sequel Go Set a Watchman, was only published in 2015. | |
| To Kill a Mockingbird sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. | |
| Obituary: Harper Lee | |
| Live: Tributes paid to Harper Lee | |
| Why is To Kill a Mockingbird so popular? | |
| Lee was born 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She was the youngest of four children of lawyer Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch Lee. | 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. | She was a guardedly private person, respected and protected by residents of her town, rarely giving interviews. |
| "The world has lost a brilliant mind and a great writer," said Spencer Madrie, owner of Ol' Curiosities and Book Shoppe, a small, independent book store in Lee's hometown that focuses largely on Lee's works. | |
| "We will remember Harper Lee for her candour, her talent, and the truths she gave the world, perhaps before the world was ready. We are grateful to have had a connection to an author who offered so much. | |
| "There will always be something missing from Monroeville and the world at large in the absence of Harper Lee." | |
| The author Malorie Blackman posted "Harper Lee R.I.P." on her Twitter account. | |
| Apple CEO Tim Cook tweeted: "Rest in peace, Harper Lee. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience." | |
| The manuscript for the sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set A Watchman was discovered and published in 2016. | |
| Many bookshops remained open all night to cope with demand. | |
| The novel is currently being adapted for the stage. | |
| To Kill a Mockingbird - at a glance | |
| In the small fictional town of Maycomb in the depression-ravaged American South, a black man named Tom Robinson is falsely accused of raping a white woman. | |
| A lawyer named Atticus Finch defends Robinson in court. The frenzy stirred up by the case and her father's quest for justice are seen through the eyes of Finch's six-year-old daughter Scout. | |
| The book explores issues of race, class and the loss of innocence. | |
| "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." - Atticus Finch to Scout. | |
| "It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived." - Scout Finch. | |
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