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Harper Lee

1926 - 2016

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Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926 – February 19, 2016) 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 Capote in his research for the book In Cold Blood (1966). Her second and final novel, Go Set a Watchman, was an earlier draft of Mockingbird, set at a later date, that was published in July 2015 as a sequel. A collection of her short stories and essays, The Land of Sweet Forever, is set to be published on October 21, 2025. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Harper Lee is the 465th most popular writer (up from 648th in 2019), the 564th most popular biography from United States (up from 668th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular American Writer.

Harper Lee is most famous for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird.

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Among writers, Harper Lee ranks 465 out of 7,302. Before her are Baldassare Castiglione, Dan Brown, Samuel Butler, Statius, Thomas Bernhard, and Alejandro Jodorowsky. After her are Mahmoud Darwish, Eugene O'Neill, Alessandro Manzoni, Charles, Duke of Orléans, Erich von Däniken, and Tulsidas.

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Among people born in 1926, Harper Lee ranks 25. Before her are Nuon Chea, Prince Claus of the Netherlands, Andrzej Wajda, Chuck Berry, Miles Davis, and Irwin Rose. After her are Hugh Hefner, Jerry Lewis, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Paul Berg, Sydney Chaplin, and Beji Caid Essebsi. Among people deceased in 2016, Harper Lee ranks 25. Before her are Pierre Boulez, George Michael, Nancy Reagan, Andrzej Wajda, Carlos Alberto Torres, and João Havelange. After her are Prince, Abbas Kiarostami, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, S. R. Nathan, Queen Anne of Romania, and Anisa Makhlouf.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harper Lee ranks 564 out of 20,380. Before her are Michael Clarke Duncan (1957), Charles M. Schulz (1922), Jesse James (1847), Elinor Ostrom (1933), Dan Brown (1964), and Shirley Temple (1928). After her are Jodie Foster (1962), Vesto Slipher (1875), Eugene O'Neill (1888), Robert Peary (1856), Jeff Bridges (1949), and Lauren Bacall (1924).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Harper Lee ranks 52. Before her are Jack Kerouac (1922), Gertrude Stein (1874), Raymond Chandler (1888), Henry James (1843), Philip Roth (1933), and Dan Brown (1964). After her are Eugene O'Neill (1888), Louise Glück (1943), Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804), William S. Burroughs (1914), Tennessee Williams (1911), and Richard Bach (1936).

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