How Did Harper Lee Contribute To Literature

Harper Lee is an award winning american novelist. Lee has only written 2 books in her writing career. Lee’s childhood friend Truman Capote also a writer was an inspiration to her writing. Harper Lee is best known for winning the pultizer prize winning bestseller ‘To kill a Mockingbird’ in 1960. Although Lee’s contribution to literature has been limited to two novels, she alone has achieved what many writers can only wish to achieve after many authoring volumes. Nelle Harper Lee born on April 28,1926 in Monroeville, Alabama is a well-known American novelist. Lee is the youngest child of a family with four children. The most part of Lee’s childhood was spent in a small town being a tomboy. For the most of Lee’s life her mother suffered from mental illness, she rarely ever left the house. Lee’s father was a lawyer, and a member of the Alabama state legislature and also owned part of the local newspaper. Lee graduated in 1944 from high school where she developed a interest in

Her first effort was titled go set a watchman, which followd the later lives pf the characters from to kill a mockingbird. The book was submitted in 1957 to a publisher but was not accepted. Lee’s editor ask her to revise the story and make the main character Scout a child. Lee then worked on the story for two years when it then became TO kill a Mockingbird. In July 1960, Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” was published and lee immediately became a literary legend. The book was chosen by the LIterary Guild and also picked by the Book of the Month Club. In 1961 the book won the prestigious PUlitzer Prize as well as many other awards. “ To Kill a Mockingbird was adapted into an Academy Award winning movie in 1962. A classic of American literature, it has also been translated into more than 40 languages with a million or more copies sold each