The cover of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, the only book-length fiction she wrote that was published. An early draft of the novel was published a year before her death in 2016.

Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, will release the book Oct. 21. “The Land of Sweet Forever” will include an introduction by Lee’s authorized biographer, Casey Cep.

In the new building, murals and quotes from prominent female students and historical figures adorn the entryways, featuring author Harper Lee and Vivian Malone Jones, the first African American ...

2. Harper Lee almost became a lawyer. Lee intended to follow in the footsteps of her beloved father, Amasa Coleman Lee, who first trained as a teacher, then passed the bar exam and practiced law.

Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, in New York, 1960. (Photo by Ben Martin/Getty Images) Lee grew up in a small, southern town, the child of an attorney father and a distant mother who ...

Among the three who regretted becoming teachers, Harper Lee quotes one who wrote: “It is difficult for me to throw myself into teaching at $45 a week, when at present driving a truck and just ...

When Harper Lee published To Kill a Mockingbird on July 11, 1960, its recounting of a struggle for Black justice in the 1930s segregationist South struck a chord amid the rising civil rights ...

Born on April 28, 1926, American author Harper Lee is best known for her novel 'To Kill A Mockingbird' for which she won a Pulitzer Prize in 1961. Though Lee published only two books during her ...

— Harper Lee 4. “I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.” — Ernest Hemingway 5.