Harper LEE is the author of the classic novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird'. She was born in Monroeville, Alabama in 1926 and died in 2016. Her first and only novel, 'To Kill a Mockingbird', was published in 1960 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961. The novel has become a staple of American literature and has been adapted into a film, stage play, and opera. Harper LEE's three-letter last name is 'LEE'.