Harper LEE is an American novelist best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Published in 1960, the novel has become a classic of modern American literature and has been widely praised for its warmth and humor, despite dealing with the serious issues of rape and racial inequality. LEE was born in Monroeville, Alabama in 1926 and attended Huntingdon College and the University of Alabama before pursuing a career in law. She eventually gave up law to focus on writing, and To Kill a Mockingbird was her only published novel.