Author Harper Lee’s death – kjendis.no

(Dagbladet): American author Nelle Harper Lee’s death, 89 years old, writes Alabama Local News.

Lee publicist confirms death faced the New York Times.

Lee was best known for the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” ( “To Kill a Mockingbird”) from 1960, which referred the racism she witnessed as a child in his hometown of Monroeville, Alabama.

Literary superstar

The novel won the Pulitzer Prize the following year and was made into a film in 1962. The film won three Oscars.

The novel made Lee a literary superstar, a title the author was not particularly thrilled, writes New York Times.

– I expected no success with the book, and feared that it would get the total harvest. That it became so popular is almost as frightening, Lee said in a radio interview in 1964.

The expectations of Lee’s next book was exorbitant, but it would take half a century before the author released a new novel . “Go Set a Watchman” was her second and latest book, and was released last year.

Would not thank

The release came as a surprise to most. Lee was in fact suffered a stroke in 2007 and was nearly deaf and blind when the book came. “Go Set a Watchman” was admittedly based on a text her lawyer found in Lee’s old papers.

Lee was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007, presented by then President George W. Bush. The price is considered to be the highest civilian award in the United States.

She received otherwise numerous awards, and was known for refusing to hold acceptance speech.

“To Kill a Mockingbird” has in recent times become curriculum of American schools and universities. The book used to look at issues of injustice, social classes, racial prejudice and gender roles. Among other things.