Harper Lee

Nelle Harper Lee (born April 28, 1926) is an American novelist

widely known for her 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning To Kill a
Mockingbird which deals with the racism she observed as a
child in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. Though Lee
only published this single book for half a century, she was
awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her
contribution to literature.[1] Lee has received numerous
honorary degrees, and declined to speak on each occasion.
Lee assisted close friend Truman Capote in his research for
the book In Cold Blood (1966).[2]
In February 2015 at age 88, nearly blind and deaf after a
2007 stroke, and after a lifetime of maintaining that she
would never publish another novel, a statement was issued
through her attorney, Tonja Carter,[3] that Lee would publish
a second novel, Go Set a Watchman (set to be published on
July 14, 2015), written before To Kill a Mockingbird.[4][5]