Born: 28 April 1926 · Died: 19 February 2016 · Age at death: 89
How old was Harper Lee when she died?
Harper Lee died aged 89. She was born on 28 April 1926 and died on 19 February 2016.
American novelist of To Kill a Mockingbird, the Pulitzer Prize-winning story of racial injustice told by Scout Finch
Did you know?She spent several months in Kansas helping her childhood friend Truman Capote research the details for his true-crime book In Cold Blood.
Quick facts
Date of birth28 April 1926
Date of death19 February 2016
Age at death89
Cause of deathStroke
NationalityAmerican
BirthplaceMonroeville, United States
Occupationwriter, novelist, musician
Editor's Take:
Harper Lee wrote one novel that changed how millions think about justice. She grew up in Monroeville, Alabama, the daughter of a lawyer, and was childhood friends with Truman Capote. She moved to New York and worked as an airline clerk. Friends gave her a year's wages so she could write. To Kill a Mockingbird, published in 1960, tells of a lawyer defending a Black man falsely accused of rape. It won the Pulitzer Prize and became a classic film. She avoided publicity for decades. A second novel, Go Set a Watchman, appeared in 2015.
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).
