Harper Lee
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Nelle Harper Lee was an American novelist whose 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature. She assisted her close friend Truman Ca
Portrait by Truman Capote, 1960
The first edition cover for To Kill a Mockingbird
Lee being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, November 5, 2007
Go Set a Watchman
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Go Set a Watchman is a novel by Harper Lee that was published in 2015 by HarperCollins and Heinemann. Written before her only other published novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman was initia
Harper Lee
…She assisted her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book In Cold Blood (1966). An earlier draft of Mockingbird, set at a later date, Go Set a Watchman, was published in July 2015 as a sequel. A collection of her short stories and essays, The Land of Sweet Forever, was published on October 21, 2025…
The HarperCollins cover was similar in design to the first edition of To Kill a Mockingbird.