“It had never fully occurred to Jean Louise that she was a girl: her life had been one of reckless, pummeling activity; fighting, football, climbing, keeping up with Jem, and besting anyone her own age in any contest requiring physical prowess.”

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.