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Nelle Harper Lee Nelle Harper Lee: Master Storyteller By: Rebecca,Jacie,Alyssa Born: April 28,1926  Place of Birth: Monroeville, Alabama Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926 in Monroville, Alabama. Her parents were Frances Leee and Amasa Coleman Lee. She had two sisters and one brother. Her sisters were Alice and Louise. Nelle met Truman Capote in 1931. She was nicknamed Dody because she was boy like. Nelle's mom wanted to name Nelle after her grandmother but her grandmother's name wasn't Nelle it was Ellen. When you spell Ellen backwards it spells Nelle so that was a diffrent way of naming her after her grandmother. Nelle had to stay in a certain part of her school because other parts were to rigid and organized for her so she really never saw diffrent parts of her school. in 1944-45 she attended Huntington Collage in Montgomery Alabama. In 1949 she moved to New York and worked as an airline reservation clerk. She also took a year off from work to write full time. 1957 is when she submitted the manuscript //__"The Mocking Bird__//" to J.B. Lippincott. There he spent 2 and a half years rewriting it. In 1960 //__To Kill a Mocking Bird released for publication on July 11.__ As a child Nelle had no one to play with instead she had a treehouse. That is when she met Truman. Nelle was smart but confused in school. She wondered why you called teachers by thier first name. When Nelle went to her first college she wore jeans not dresses and didn't smoke cigarette. She smoked the pipe and used curse words. Nelle was strange and that's what the girls in her droom said.//In the 1950s she was an airline reservation clerk before leaving to devote her time to writing.Lee originally approached a literary agent with some short stories, but was convinced to lengthen one into a novel. //To Kill a Mockingbird// was published in 1960 and has never been out of print since that date. In 1961 it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize; Harper Lee was the first woman since 1942 to win the Pulitzer for Fiction. The novel became an Academy-award winning film starring Gregory Peck, and was later adapted for the stage. The coupling of the story of a young girl's coming of age in rural Alabama and a tale of racial injustice created a powerful novel still popular among people of Alabama.

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