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The life of Harper Lee
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Alice Finch Lee born
September 11, 1911
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Louise Lee Conner born
July 2, 1916
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Edwin Coleman Lee born
October 1920
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Nelle Harper Lee born
April 28, 1926
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Kindergarten
1932 - 12/31/1932
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Harper meets Truman Capote
June 1932
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Exact date unknown, Harper met Capote in kindergarten, and Lee graduated in 1944, assuming she did not skip a grade, then working backwards she met Capote when she was six years old.
1st through 3rd
1933 - 12/31/1935
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4th through 8th grade
1936 - 12/31/1939
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High School
1940 - 1944
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Lee goes to Huntingdon College
1944 - 1945
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She dropped out of Huntingdon and then went to the University of Alabama.
Lee goes to University of Alabama
1945 - 1950
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Harper Lee dropped out again, due to the fact that she did not want to pursue a career in law, (which was a reason she went to the University of Alabama in the first place) but wanted to be a writer instead.
Enrolls at UA collage of law
1947 - 1950
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Went to Oxford for the summer
6/21/1948 - 12/31/1948
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Lee goes to New York
1949
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Worked many jobs
1949 - 12/25/1956
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Worked as both a flight attendent, and for the British Overseas Air Corp.
Lee's Mother Dies
2 Jun 1951
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Frances Finch Cunningham Lee died 2 Jun 1951.
Lee's brother Edwin Coleman Lee dies
July 12, 1951
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Finds agent
November, 1956
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Quit many jobs and focused on writing
12/25/1956 - July 11, 1960
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Famous friend (Broadway composer Michael Brown) gave Lee a year's salary and a note that said
"You have one year off from your job to write whatever you please. Merry Christmas."
She then started to write "To Kill A Mockingbird"
Within three and a half years, it was finished.
Lee accompanies Truman Capote to Kansas
1959
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In 1959 Lee went with Truman Capote to Holcombe, Kansas, to help him research for his novel.
"To Kill a Mockingbird" published
July 11, 1960
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"To Kill A Mockingbird" wins the Pulitzer Prize in 1961
1961
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Lee's Father dies
April 15, 1962
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The film "To Kill A Mockingbird" is released
December 25, 1962
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Lee appointed to the National Council on the Arts
June 1966
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Illustrated English edition of TKAM appears in Moscow
1977
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Truman Capote dies
25 Aug 1984
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Lee writes, "I am still alive although very quiet."
1995
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"I am still alive although very quiet." was the introduction to the 1995 35th anniversary edition of "To Kill A Mockingbird"
Harper Lee turns 80
Apr 28, 2006
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Harper Lee awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
November 5, 2007
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Harper's sister dies (Louise Lee Conner)
Oct. 13, 2009
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Harper's sister (Alice Finch Lee) turns 100
September 11, 2011
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Alice Finch Lee turned 100 on September 11, 2011.
Harper Lee's current age: 86
02/21/2013
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Harper Lee is now 86 years old. Lee is now "in an assisted-living facility, wheelchair bound, partially blind and deaf, and suffering from memory loss."
-http://katdish.net/2012/02/seeking-immortality/
Outside World
Joseph Stalin becomes leader of the Soviet Union
1927
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Great Depression
1929 - 1939
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Scottsboro Trials
April 6, 1931 - January 20, 1936
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World War II
1 September 1939 - 2 September 1945
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Brown v. Board of Education decided
May 17, 1954
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Martin Luther King Jr. killed
1968
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