Harper Lee remembered on her 100th birthday

Harper Lee is being remembered on April 28, the 100th anniversary of her birth in Monroeville, Alabama. Lee wrote To Kill a Mockingbird, which won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and whose 1962 film adaptation won three Academy Awards. She based Atticus Finch on her father, Amasa Coleman Lee, and was born Nelle Harper Lee after her grandmother Ellen's name spelled backward. To Kill a Mockingbird's courtroom drama and Scout's coming-of-age perspective continue to shape American conversations about race, justice, and literature.