Harper Lee Research Paper

Harper Lee “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,”(“Harper…”) Nelle Harper Lee, better known as Harper Lee; Is one of America’s well known author of best-selling book To Kill A Mockingbird. Lee got her name after her grandmother, Ellen, but had spelled it backwards to get her name Nelle. Lee was known to do amazing and extraordinary activities. She wasn’t just like any other girl, she was furious child who stopped at nothing and kept to herself to the world around her, but with her close friends she was fun and outgoing. Harper Lee was a superlative girl and her life was filled with multiple lifelong memories. Harper once said, “People in their

Harper Lee was born April 28, 1926 , in Monroeville, Alabama. As a child, she was known as a tomboy who would beat up kids on the playground(Grimes). She back-talked her teachers and would not try, nor did very well in school. In high school, Harper had an English teacher with whom she had a special connection that made Harper Lee want to learn. During high school, she fell deeply in love with writing and later became the editor-in-chief for the School Humor Magazine(To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee). Throughout high school Harper Lee cared about one thing and one thing only; writing. She had little concerned about impressing the boys or about the latest trends in fashion. Lee was infatuated with the idea of becoming an author, so she worked efficiently and conscientiously to achieve her goal. Harper Lee was known as being friendly and gregarious to the people she was acquainted with, but a very secluded person to the world around her(To Kill A

She studied law at the University of Alabama from 1945 to 1949(Harper Lee Biography). In 1949, Harper arrived in Manhattan and settled into her apartment in the East 80s. She began to work at a bookstore where she found a job as a reservation agent for Eastern Airlines and then for British Overseas Airways Corporation. Shortly after, she transferred to Oxford University in England as an exchange student for a year, but she left after six months to go to New York to pursue her dreams of becoming a writer(To Kill a Mockingbird). She helped a close friend, Truman Capote, who wrote an article for The New Yorker, release his nonfiction book In Cold Blood. Lee and Capote joined teams and starting writing for The New Yorker. Capote was writing about four members of a family that murders four individuals in their small town Kansas farming community. Lee and Capote traveled to Kansas to interview people to try and solve the crime. Harper Lee was his partner in solving this mystery. She helped find the suspected killers and got the chance to interview them for the article they had been working on which later turned into his nonfiction book In Cold