Harper Lee
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Death | 8 years ago |
| Date of birth | April 28,1926 |
| Zodiac sign | Taurus |
| Born | Monroeville |
| Alabama | |
| United States | |
| Date of died | February 19,2016 |
| Died | Monroeville |
| Alabama | |
| United States | |
| Parents | Amasa Coleman Lee |
| Frances Cunningham Finch | |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| Presidential Medal of Freedom | |
| Goodreads Choice Awards Best Fiction | |
| Quill Award for Audio book | |
| Movies/Shows | To Kill A Mockingbird |
| Education | Monroe County High School |
| Siblings | Alice Finch Lee |
| Edwin Lee | |
| Louise Lee Conner | |
| Books | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Go Set a Watchman | |
| To Kill a Mockingbird Common Core Aligned Literature Guide | |
| The Play of To Kill a Mockingbird | |
| Nationality | American |
| Full name | Nelle Harper Lee |
| Downwards | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 407753 |
Harper Lee Life story
Nelle Harper Lee was an American novelist who wrote the 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird that won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature. She assisted her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book In Cold Blood.
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Jack the Ripper victims' biography wins book prize
Hallie Rubenhold has worked as a curator for The National Portrait Gallery and as a university lecturer.
A book that tells the "untold" stories of The Women killed by Jack the Ripper has won a literary prize.
Hallie Rubenhold 's The Five took this year's Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, it was announced on Tuesday.
The author and historian bagged £50,000 for the book, which attempts to give a voice to The Women murdered mysteriously in Victorian East London .
"These were Ordinary People , like you and I, who happened to fall upon Hard Times ," said Rubenhold.
The book reconstructs the lives of The Five Women - Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols, Annie Chapman , Elizabeth Stride , Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly - killed by The Unidentified serial killer in the Whitechapel area of The City , often using little More Than the DNA of a single hair.
"There's so much in their stories that we can Take Away that tells us about how we live today: everything from homelessness to addiction to domestic violence," she went on.
"And people become victims because society doesn't care about them. "
Image taken from The Cover of The Five by Hallie RubenholdStig Abell , chair of the judges for the award, said the "beautifully written and impressively researched" book "spoke with an urgency and passion to Our Own times".
Earlier in the year, around its publication, noted how "a landmark study calls time on the misogyny that fed the Jack the Ripper myth". The Paper 's critic, Frances Wilson , however, begged the question: "Why has it taken 130 years for a book telling the stories of The Women to appear?"
Rebecca Armstrong from wrote that Rubenhold was "giving Jack the Ripper's victims back their voices".
"Throughout the book, Rubenhold uses the particulars of her subjects' lives as a springboard to depict social circumstances that shaped millions of lives," added Wendy Smith in
Jad Adams from the acknowledged how the book did not include any gory accounts of how each victim met her death.
"This is because she wants to look not at how they died but at how they lived," he wrote.
Other titles shortlisted for the award included Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and The Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep , and On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons by Laura Cumming. William Feaver 's The Lives of Lucian Freud : Youth, Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell , and Guest House for Young Widows by Azadeh Moaveni were also recognised.
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