What was the title of Harper Lee's only novel?
Harper Lee outside immediately and pick up the pages," Shields wrote. When the novel was finally ready, the author opted to use the name "Harper Lee", rather than risk having her first name Nelle be misidentified as "Nellie". Published July 11, 1960, "To Kill a Mockingbird" was an immediate bestseller and won great critical acclaim, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961. It remains a bestseller, with more than 30 million copies in print. In 1999, it was voted "Best Novel of the Century" in a poll by the "Library Journal". Like Lee, the tomboy Scout of the novel is the
Harper Lee the mid-1950s and published in July 2015 as a "sequel", though it was later confirmed to be "To Kill a Mockingbird"s first draft. Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama where she grew up as the youngest of four children of Frances Cunningham (Finch) and Amasa Coleman Lee. Her parents chose her middle name, Harper, to honor pediatrician Dr. William W. Harper, of Selma, Alabama, who saved the life of her sister Louise. Her first name, Nelle, was her grandmother's name spelled backwards and the name she used; Harper Lee being primarily her pen name.