{"id":1577,"date":"2015-04-07T14:24:31","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T21:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1577"},"modified":"2018-09-12T10:16:04","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T17:16:04","slug":"lee-nelle-harper-1926","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1577","title":{"rendered":"LEE, NELLE HARPER, 1926-2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writer. Born&#8211; April 28, 1926, Monroeville. Parents&#8211; Amasa Coleman and Frances (Finch) Lee. Education&#8211; Huntingdon College, 1944-1945; University of Alabama, 1945-1949; spent one year at Oxford University. Lived in New York in the 1950&#8217;s;\u00a0employed as a reservations officer for Eastern Airlines\u00a0while she worked on her writing.\u00a0 Member&#8211; National Council on the Arts, 1966-1972. To Kill A Mockingbird was filmed by Universal in 1962.\u00a0Honors&#8211; Alabama Library Association Author Award, 1961; National Council of Christians and Jews Brotherhood Award ,1961; Pulitzer Prize for fiction, 1961.\u00a0 Alabama Humanities Award, 2002.\u00a0 Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2007; National Medal of Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, 2010. Awarded honorary doctorates by the University of\u00a0 Alabama, 1990; Spring Hill College, 1997; University of Notre Dame, 2006. Died February 19, 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary authors online; Marquis Who&#8217;s Who online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Go Set a Watchman.\u00a0 New York;\u00a0 Harper, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>To Kill a Mockingbird. Philadelphia; Lippincott, 1960.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Writer. Born&#8211; April 28, 1926, Monroeville. Parents&#8211; Amasa Coleman and Frances (Finch) Lee. Education&#8211; Huntingdon College, 1944-1945; University of Alabama, 1945-1949; spent one year at Oxford University. Lived in New York in the 1950&#8217;s;\u00a0employed as a reservations officer for Eastern Airlines\u00a0while she worked on her writing.\u00a0 Member&#8211; National Council on the Arts, 1966-1972. To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-j-l"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8694,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions\/8694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}