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“Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing” (Harper Lee). From the beginning of her time, she escaped the world of fear and established her own in another style. She predominately showed those around her the obedience she carries. She relished the opinions of others and subdued any blocked pathway to her success. Nelle Harper Lee, known as Harper Lee, became and remains to be an outstanding author of experienced background, relatable history, and polished standards. Strictly one-hundred miles from the state capital, Monroeville of Alabama, Nelle was born on Wednesday, April twenty-eighth of the year nineteen twenty-six. She was born in the era of poverty, war, and racism. The Great Depression damaged many families and scattered unwanted individuals across the United States. These unwanted individuals were not only colored, but were held accountable for unreasonable and scrutinizing events. Amasa Coleman Lee, father to Harper, was an …show more content…
She chose her life story, but with different names and characters. She chose to maintain a reality, but keep the distance between hers and the text. When writing her first book, her editor, Tay Hohoff, guided Nelle through the successful two and a half years of re-writing and improving. Finally, in July of nineteen sixty, Lee’s first book was published in which she decided to title herself as “Harper Lee”, leaving out “Nelle”. As she continued with writing and a continuously growing friendship with Truman, she followed him to Kansas where they researched and pursued Truman’s dreams of writing a novel. He too accomplished his own piece where Harper guided him just as he did her. Her interests stayed in murders, crimes, and love stories in small towns, which was a minimum outline of her first published novel, To Kill a Mockingbir”. As fans waited for another book after she received many awards in nineteen sixty-one, she stayed distant and dropped the idea of writing another

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