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.	2019-02-12 13:18:15
Date of Upd.	2023-08-07 02:03:27
ID	407753

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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.

WhatsOnStage Awards: Jodie Comer and Lucie Jones among winners

Feb 12,2023 6:01 pm

... A West End transfer of To Kill A Mockingbird, Aaron Sorkin s adaptation of the classic Harper Lee novel, won an acting prize for Keyworth, who plays Scout Finch - the young girl whose perspective the story is told from...

Jack the Ripper victims' biography wins book prize

Feb 16,2020 8:24 am

... 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...

100 'most inspiring' novels revealed by BBC Arts

Feb 16,2020 7:52 am

... Martin - the first book of the series that inspired the smash hit TV show - Harper Lee s To Kill a Mockingbird and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley...

WhatsOnStage Awards: Jodie Comer and Lucie Jones among winners

Feb 16,2020 7:52 am

By Steven McIntoshEntertainment reporter

Jodie Comer was among The Winners at The First gender-neutral Whatsonstage Awards , which saw all four of The Major Acting prizes go to women.

The Killing Eve star was named best performer in a Play at Sunday's ceremony After starring in sexual assault drama Prima Facie Last Year .

Other winners included The Stars of To Kill A Mockingbird and Legally Blonde .

There was only one male winner for Acting - in a newly created additional category for best professional debut.

The Whatsonstage Awards , where The Winners are voted by The Public , have run annually since 2008, But this is The First year where The leading and supporting categories were named " best performer" instead of Best Actor or actress.

More awards ceremonies have been going gender neutral in recent years to allow non-binary performers to compete. But at other ceremonies, this has often resulted in an imbalance in favour of Men .

After their decision to merge best male and best female into one best artist category resulted in an all-male shortlist, which Harry Styles ultimately won.

The First gender-neutral Whatsonstage Awards saw Men nominated in all of The Major Acting categories, But The Four main prizes went to women.

They were Comer for Prima Facie, To Kill a Mockingbird's Gwyneth Keyworth , and Legally Blonde stars Courtney Bowman and Lauren Drew.

The decision to merge The gendered categories meant The Number of Acting prizes was almost halved, although The Ceremony maintained separate awards for plays and musicals.

However, The awards body also introduced an additional Acting prize this year for newcomers. The inaugural best professional debut trophy was won by 19-year-old Joe Locke , who appeared in The Trials at The Donmar Warehouse.

in The one-woman Show Prima Facie of a lawyer who struggles to reconcile Her Job of defending Men accused of rape After she is sexually assaulted herself.

Other big winners at Sunday's awards included My Neighbour Totoro , a stage adaptation of The Japanese animation classic, which won five of The Nine awards it was nominated for.

Legally Blonde , an adaptation of The Reese Witherspoon film about a fashion-loving lawyer, also won big, scooping two of The Acting prizes.

Bonnie & Clyde The Musical and Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! won best new Musical and best Musical Revival respectively, while Prima Facie and Cock were named best new Play and best Play Revival .

A West End transfer of To Kill A Mockingbird, Aaron Sorkin 's adaptation of The Classic Harper Lee novel, won an Acting prize for Keyworth, who plays Scout Finch - The young girl whose perspective The Story is told from.

Former X Factor contestant Lucie Jones , who currently stars in The long-running Wicked, won best takeover Performance - an award given to an actor who has inherited a major role from a previous actor.

The Whatsonstage Awards have been held annually for 15 years, although during a Covid lockdown in 2021 The Ceremony was held virtually, and while theatres were closed it instead honoured members of The Public who had supported theatre during The pandemic.