The Life Of Author Harper Lee

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that took place in To Kill a Mockingbird.
Lee first attended college at Huntington College in Montgomery, Alabama from 1944-45. In 1945 Lee decided to pursue her law degree at the University of Alabama. She stayed at the University of Alabama until 1949. She also studied for a year at Oxford University in England. Lee never completed her work for her law degree. In the 1950’s she worked as a reservation clerk with Eastern Air Lines and BOAC in New York City. In the late 1950’s Lee decided to devote all her time to writing. She lived in a cold-water flat, and was supported by friends who believed in her writing.
Lee began writing at a very young age. She never tried to get her works published until she met a literary agent in New York. The literary agent told Lee that she should expand one of her short stories into a novel. That short story would later become Lee’s famous novel To Kill a Mockingbird. In 1957, she took her manuscript to the J.B. Lippincott Company. The editor, Tay ...

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