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Nelle Harper Lee was born April 28, 1926. She was raised in a small southwestern Alabama town of Monroeville. Her parents were Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch Lee. When Harper Lee was a child she was a tomboy and loved to read. Lee first studied at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama in 1944 to 1945. Later Harper Lee pursued a law degree at the University of Alabama in 1945 to 1949. Before Lee got her law degree she went to New York City where an editor helped her put together her short stories in the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird". To Kill a Mockingbird was Lee's only novel and it won a Pulitzer Prize. In 2007 Harper Lee was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Harper Lee is still alive at the age of 83 years old.
 * Painting of Harper Lee**