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A mother's instinct was screaming at me—something was wrong with my 2-year-old daughter, Harper-Lee. Before I left for work, ...
Harper Lee has died, but the conversation about her life and work has only begun. ... Harper Lee, the elusive novelist whose child's-eye view of racial injustice in a small Southern town, ...
The producers of what is officially known as “Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, a New Play by Aaron Sorkin” have broken with custom by choosing not to make the script available to critics.
Harper Lee's written a letter about becoming a reader when she was a child. Today, she says, people have iPods, cell phones and laptops. But, Harper Lee writes, "I still plod along with books." ...
Nelle Harper Lee was born in Monroeville on April 28, 1926, the youngest of four children of Frances Finch and Amasa Coleman Lee. She was a precocious child who read better than most of her ...
Harper Lee, whose novel To Kill a Mockingbird touched the hearts and helped shape the history of a nation, has died. Ms. Lee, who was 89, died in her sleep in her hometown of Monroeville, Ala.
Harper Lee, the little girl named Nelle who grew up to write one of the 20th century's most culture-changing novels, has died in her beloved hometown of Monroeville, Ala. She was 89.
Peering back across Harper Lee's life, it can seem impossible to distinguish the novelist from her masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird. Lee died at the age of 89 in her hometown of Monroeville, Ala ...
The book's famous author, Harper Lee, who died today at the age of 89, shied away from the spotlight for much of her later life, but the story has had a prominent role in American culture for decades.
Harper Lee, the elusive author whose “To Kill a Mockingbird” became an enduring best seller and classic film with its child’s-eye view of racial injustice in a small Southern town, has died.
Harper Lee, the elusive author whose "To Kill a Mockingbird" became an enduring bestseller and classic film with its child's-eye view of racial injustice in a small Southern town, has died.