Harper Lee
QUICK FACTS:
born April 28, 1926
youngest daughter of Amasa C. and Frances Finch Lee
studied law at the University of Alabama
attended Oxford University on a year exchange
left law school to pursue a writing career in NYC
worked in an airline reservations department in NYC
submitted her first novel (TKAM); agent encouraged her to expand on it
gave up her airline job to concentrate more on her career as a writer
sent TKAM to J.B. Lippincott publishing in 1957; publishers more revisions
revised and edited TKAM for the next 30 months
TKAM was published in 1960
won Pulitzer Prize in 1961
spent 85 weeks on the best sellers list
made into an Oscar winning movie
only novel to date