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Harper Lee

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Harper Lee

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Also known as Nelle Harper Lee

American novelist (1926–2016)

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Harper Lee was a female person from the United States. She was born on April 28, 1926, and died on February 19, 2016. Her recognized works include five items, and she is acknowledged in the Pulitzer Prize collection.

Her literary contributions are reflected in quotes such as, "Lawyers, I suppose, were children once," and "Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing." She is referenced by 674 other encyclopedia articles.

The name Harper Lee is also associated with an indie pop and twee artist from the 90s and 00s, linked to Sarah Records. This musical entity has 8,298 listeners and a playcount of 186,306. Similar artists include The Fairways, The Windmills, Pipas, The Sugargliders, and They Go Boom!!.

Synthesized by Vinony from 18 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Wikiquote, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United States
Active from
1920-05-26
Active to
2002-01-21
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Discography

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
8,311
Total plays
186,579

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indie poptweeSarah Records90sPurehearts

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The FairwaysThe WindmillsPipasThe SugarglidersThey Go Boom!!

Melancholic indie pop duo Harper Lee was formed in Brighton, England in 1999 by singer/guitarist Keris Howard (former member of Sarah Records group Brighter, later in Hal as well as sometime bass player in Trembling Blue Stars) and multi-instrumentalist Laura Bridge (a veteran of Hood and concurrent member of Kicker). Borrowing their name from the American author who won the Pulitzer Prize for her debut novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" before disappearing from the public eye <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Harper+Lee">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density

    · 1988 · cited 95,701x

  2. Common method biases in behavioral research: A critical review of the literature and recommended remedies.

    · 2003 · cited 67,599x

  3. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,423x

  4. Coefficient Alpha and the Internal Structure of Tests

    · 1951 · cited 29,921x

  5. Particle mesh Ewald: An <i>N</i>⋅log(<i>N</i>) method for Ewald sums in large systems

    · 1993 · cited 29,682x

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Quotes

  • “Well, they’re Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn’t dream of interrupting you at golf.”
  • “Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.”
  • “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
  • “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view — until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”
  • “As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.”
  • “And it's certainly bad, but when a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains. I don't know of any landowner around here who begrudges those children any game their father can hit. Of course he shouldn't, but he'll never change his ways. Are you going to take out your disapproval on his children?”

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Encyclopedic overview

Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926 – February 19, 2016) was an American novelist whose 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature. She assisted her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book In Cold Blood (1966). An earlier draft of Mockingbird, set at a later date, Go Set a Watchman, was published in July 2015 as a sequel. A collection of her short stories and essays, The Land of Sweet Forever, was published on October 21, 2025.

The plot and characters of To Kill a Mockingbird are loosely based on Lee's observations of her family and neighbors in Monroeville, Alabama, as well as a childhood event that occurred near her hometown in 1936. The novel deals with racist attitudes and the irrationality of adult attitudes towards race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s as depicted through the eyes of two children.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Harper Lee” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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