Monroeville, Alabama
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Monroeville is the county seat of Monroe County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census its population was 5,951.
Historic buildings in Downtown Monroeville
Old Monroe County Courthouse, the model for the courthouse used in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird
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
Monroeville, Alabama
…There is one school district in the county: Monroe County School District. Author Harper Lee was born and raised in Monroeville. Her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which received the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, explored the fictional…
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