Harper Lee, who died Thursday at 89, attracted widespread interest after cementing her legacy with a single perfect novel that's still mandatory reading in schools more than five decades later.

Author Harper Lee looks out at the graduates of the class of 2006 as they hold up copies of her book, "To Kill a Mockingbird," during commencement ceremonies at the Joyce Center in South Bend, Ind ...

Harper Lee and Truman Capote were close friends. Lee and Capote, author of Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood were friends starting in childhood, when they met in Monroeville, Alabama the ...

Harper Lee is here.” “Oh my Lord.” I turned and there she was being wheeled inside, wearing a T-shirt, beaming at folks, her white hair shining in front of the big bay window of sunlight.

To Kill a Mockingbird, heralded as an American classic, may be the late Harper Lee's best-known work of fiction, but it's not the first book she authored. According to her biography, the first ...

Harper Lee and her true crime story After more than four decades, the mysteries remain, shrouded in the fog that rolls in over Lake Martin, and the woods that surround Alexander City, Alabama.

Harper Lee was a wise woman.These 11 Harper Lee quotes serve as timeless lessons on perspective, humanity, courage and more: 1. "You never really understand a person until you consider things from ...

Harper Lee when she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961. AP Photo Eventually, in 2012, her real-estate lawyer, Tonja Carter, pressured Pinkus to transfer the copyright back to Lee, the lawsuit claims.

Lee wasn’t shy, but she didn’t want to be famous. “I never expected any sort of success with Mockingbird,” she said in 1964 in her last published interview.

Harper Lee's written a letter about becoming a reader when she was a child. Today, she says, everybody's got iPods, cell phones, laptops, but, Harper Lee writes, I still plod along with books.

Harper Lee at a 2007 ceremony honoring four new members of the Alabama Academy of Honor in Montgomery, Ala. (Rob Carr / Associated Press) By Carolyn Kellogg July 21, 2014 2:13 PM PT ...

Harper Lee and Truman Capote were close friends. Lee and Capote, author of Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood were friends starting in childhood, when they met in Monroeville, Alabama, the ...