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Lee, a descendant of Confederate General Robert E. After high school, she attended Huntington College in Montgomery, Alabama from to Four years later, Lee went to the University of Alabama to study law. While there, Lee contributed to several campus publications. She left the university six months before completing her degree and struck out for New York and a literary career.

During the s Lee worked as a reservations clerk before she gave up the job to focus intensely on her writing. A literary agent who'd read her manuscript of three essays and two short stories encouraged her to expand one of the stories into a novel.

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This work became her first and last novel, To Kill a Mockingbird In she received the Bestsellers' paperback of the year award. Lee's novel remained on the bestseller list for over eighty weeks. To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into ten languages and adapted for film by Horton Foote. The movie was released in and starred Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch.

Edgar H. Shuster is quoted in World Literature Criticism as saying, "The achievement of Harper Lee is not that she has written another novel about race prejudice, but rather that she has placed race prejudice in a perspective which allows us to see it as an aspect of a larger thing; as something that arises from phantom contacts, from fear and lack of knowledge or 'education' that one gains through learning what people are really like when you 'finally see them.

Since the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird in , Lee has contributed a few nonfiction pieces to national magazines, but has written nothing else of great note. Blackwell, Louise.