The author of To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee, has died aged 89. This from ODN gives a short overview of her life and work. Watch the video, then do the quiz below.
TRANSCRIPT
Nelle Harper Lee, who won the Pulitzer prize for fiction for her book To Kill a Mockingbird has died at 89 years old. The author was born on April 28th, 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. In 1949 she moved to New York, where she worked as an airlines reservation clerk while pursuing a writing career. Eight years later she submitted the manuscript for To Kill a Mockingbird to J.B. Lippincotts and Co., and after some rewrites it was published, receiving both critical and commercial acclaim. The story became an American national institution, and a defining text on the racial troubles in the Deep South. A film adaption was released in 1962 and became an instant hit. But it wasn't until last year that the world got new work from Harper Lee, when Go Set a Watchman, a prequel to her original work, was released. Publisher Random House confirmed the news this afternoon and tweeted, 'Today we lost a beautiful writer.'
ALSO SEE
• Quiz. How Well Do You Know Harper Lee? (PBS)
• Harper Lee Quiz (eNotes)
• Quiz: How well do you know To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee? (CBC)
• Harper Lee's Passing: A Legend Dies, But Not Sa Raison d'Etre (Huffington Post)
• Harper Lee (The Guardian)
