Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

Southern novel about racial injustice seen through child's perspective

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Harper Lee
Harper Lee

Harper Lee was an American novelist best known for To Kill a Mockingbird, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that became a landmark of American literature and a defining text on racial injustice. Despite publishing only two novels in her lifetime, she is one of the most widely read and beloved American authors.

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