Harper Lee

Introduction

The professional lives of most novelists are quite similar to each other. Being a novelist is an extraordinary professional career, or perhaps we can say it is not a career, but a different way of expressing our feelings, gratitude's and experiences. For some writers, "need for success and failure is not mandatory". One of them is Harper Lee who specters a very different way of carrying out an inscription life. She authors the bestselling novel of 20th century called “To Kill a Mockingbird”. After a long pause, she delivered another novel entitled “The Long Goodbye”.

Dialogues and Discussions

Early Life & Family

Nell Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926 in Monroeville, a town of 7,000 inhabitants in the south-west of Alabama. Her father, Amasa Lee, was a lawyer and editor of the Monroe Journal, and takes many similarities with Atticus Finch, the father of the narrator in To Kill a Mockingbird. Lee was a tomboy and an astute reader, as a child. Harper Lee is the youngest of four children (three girls and a boy).

Education

After her graduation from high school in Monroeville Lee went to Huntingdon College for Women in Montgomery (1944 - 1945). She opted for law at the University of Alabama (1945 till 1949), entered into female students 'fraternity' Chi-Omega "(Engl. Chi Omega). At this time, she has published several short stories and student for a year was the editor of the humor magazine Remmer-Jammer. She never graduated from university and received a law degree, but spent a summer at Oxford in England, then settled in New York and worked as an employee representative of airlines of Eastern Air Lines and BOAC.

Her Best Friend

Truman Capote was Harper Lee's best friend. He was his neighbor and kindergarten school friend. The two bonded instantly and maintained a lifelong friendship. “In the end, I did not go alone. I went with a lifelong friend, Harper Lee. She is a gifted woman, courageous and with a warmth that instantly kindles most people, however, suspicious or dour.” Capote on Lee.

Capote and Lee were neighbors and friends from the time that they were young. They had a very complementary relationship; Capote helped edit and promote To Kill a Mockingbird and Lee helped Capote do research for In Cold Blood. She based the character of Dill in To Kill a Mockingbird on Capote and he based the character of Idabel in Other Voices, Other Rooms on Lee. Sadly they were not so close to Capote's succeeding years, partially due to his drug and alcohol abuse.

Literacy Career

Harper Lee worked briefly in New York as a clerk in an airline where she takes care of bookings. Therefore, she decided to embark on a writing career, with the moral and financial support of her friends. She gave up that job for her devotion to writing. She presented a document of short stories about Southern United States life, in JB Lippincott publishing house, in 1957. There, they are encouraged to process these episodes into a novel, what they spent the ...