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It’s set 20 years after the events of Mockingbird. In 2015, Lee’s publisher released Go Set a Watchman, which was billed as a sequel to Mockingbird but was actually her first draft of Mockingbird. Other notable works of Southern literature include Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, and Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man is Hard to Find. Mockingbird therefore falls into a particular subset of American literature called Southern literature, since it deals explicitly and implicitly with themes and issues that were uniquely Southern. While it is the story of Scout’s growing up, it is also a story of the racially charged atmosphere in the town in the years of the Great Depression. To Kill a Mockingbird is set in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama. Lee died in her sleep in 2016 at age 89, having received numerous honorary degrees, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the National Medal of Arts. Its publication was controversial, as some believed Lee’s publisher took advantage of her old age to release the book (though an investigation by the State of Alabama found no evidence of this). At that point, her publisher released Go Set a Watchman, which Lee wrote initially as a first draft of Mockingbird.

Aside from a few essays, she published nothing else until 2015. After 1960, Lee retreated from public life to her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. She published To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960, which became an immediate and immense success-it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961 and was voted “Best Novel of the Century” by a Library Journal poll in 1999.

She earned a law degree from the University of Alabama in 1949 and spent a year in Oxford, England, but moved to New York in 1950 to focus on writing. Nelle Harper Lee was the youngest of four children born to Amasa Lee and Frances Finch Lee.

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