Legendary American novelist Harper Lee celebrates her birthday on April 28.
Born in Alabama in 1926, Lee rose to international prominence after publishing her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The story involving a black man accused of raping a white woman was inspired by Lee's childhood experiences witnessing racial injustice and prejudice. The book won a Pulitzer Prize and became the most defining work of Lee's career. Actually, Mockingbird was the only novel she published until, in 2015, it was announced that a recently re-discovered novel featuring Scout Finch that had never been released would see the light of day.
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