what is an interesting fact about Harper Lee. aka the woman who wrote "To Kill A Mockingbird"?

Question

i would like to know, i am choosing a best answer. give me as much true facts about her as possible. the person with the most facts get's chosen as "best answer".

thanx a million!

Answer 1

She was born In Monroeville, Alabama.
In real life, she was the yougest of four children. But both her dad and her sister were/are attorneys.
Only wrote the one book, "To Kill A Mockingbird", even though asked over the years to write a second.

Friends with Truman Capote. It was rumored that Capote wrote "Mockingbird" for her. But this is false. Anyone can tell this in the literary style they each use.

Won a Pulitzer for Mockingbird.
In 1957 Miss Lee submitted the manuscript of her novel to the J. B. Lippincott Company. She was told that her novel consisted of a series of short stories strung together, and she was urged to re-write it. For the next two and a half years she re-worked the manuscript with the help of her editor, Tay Hohoff, and in 1960 To Kill a Mockingbird was published, her only published book.

The courthose in the movie with Gregory Peck (1962) is based on the old courthose in Monroeville.

Answer 2

You are talking about an amazing book. I read that book it's been 3 years now and there can be many possibilities of Harper Lee to write this book. 1- She probably lived her childhood in such an enviornment where such events occured in ther life or in a friend of Harper Lee 2- Harper Lee just felt like writting a story about 2 children, getting scared of something/seomone and then adding a twist to the story THERE ARE LOADS OF POSSIBILITYS USE YOUR IMAGINATION...which is what Harper Lee most probablu used :) Good Luck with ur essay!

Answer 3

Well...she wrote To Kill A Mockingbird. Try these websites.

Answer 4

"To Kill a Mockingbird" was based on her childhood experiences. She first sent the story as a compilation of short stories, memories of her younger years. The publishing house suggested she meld the short stories together, and she acquiesced.