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US writer Harper Lee is dead
For her novel “to kill a Mockingbird” was Harper Lee with the prestigious Pulitzerpreis excellent. At the age of 89 years, is the famous US-American author, now dead.
The municipality of Monroeville in Alabama on Friday (19.02.2016) the death of their most famous citizen, the author Harper Lee, confirmed. Your in Parts biographical novel “to kill a Mockingbird”, for in 1961 with the Pulitzerpreis was honored, is about the racism in the US southern States during the 1930s. The book has been used in more than 40 languages and sold worldwide of well over 40 million Times.
“To kill a Mockingbird” is one of the best-known and most influential novel of the American literature of the 20. Century. British librarians placed the novel at # 1 on the “books that every adult before his death should have read”. The filming was equal to eight times nominated for an Oscar. The book was with Gregory Peck in the lead role filmed and with three Oscars awarded.
Gregory Peck in the film adaptation of “to kill a Mockingbird”
After their worldwide success published Harper Lee only some essays, but never again a novel. However, she accompanied Truman Capote, her childhood friend, as an assistant in his research for the facts-novel “in cold blood” to Kansas. .Interviews refused to the writer, as a shy and closed in galt.
Follow up is actually the predecessor’s tape
In July 2015 appeared then yet another novel by Harper Lee, “Go Set a Watchman” (Go down, place a guardian). The work, however, was not newly written, but the first version of “to kill a Mockingbird”. A friend of mine had the long-lost manuscript in a safe, recovered and allowed the author to convince to publish the Text.
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US writer Harper Lee has died
Other friends and Acquaintances, however, doubted publicly that Harper Lee, the publication in fact had agreed to: they speculated that the last of the hard of hearing and blind Lee have been tampered with could be to their consent to the publication of the book.
“Go, place a watchman” was, as already the predecessor, a best seller, however, there were many Fans shocked, because the main character from “to kill a Mockingbird” lawyer Atticus, here at once a racist was.
The author Harper Lee lived recently retired and in poor health in a nursing home in her hometown of Monroeville.
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