The one thing that does not abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
Harper Lee Quotes
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
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| Birth: | 28th April, 1926 |
| Death: | 19th February, 2016 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Novelist |
About
Nelle Harper Lee, better known by her pen name Harper Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama, USA. She was an American novelist widely known for her novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, published in 1960. Immediately successful, it won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern American literature. Another novel, Go Set a Watchman, was written in the mid-1950s and controversially published in July 2015 as a "sequel", though it was later confirmed to be To Kill a Mockingbird's first draft. In 2007, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to literature.
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