“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.- Atticus Finch”

American novelist

Harper Lee was an American novelist best known for her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The book won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature. She also helped her close friend Truman Capote with research for In Cold Blood. An earlier draft of Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman, was published in 2015 as a sequel, and a later collection of her short stories and essays, The Land of Sweet Forever, was published after her death.