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The woman who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird is 88 years old and uses a wheelchair, after a stroke.
Rumour has always had it that Capote actually wrote To Kill a Mockingbird, but Lee said: "That's the biggest lie ever told".
Harper Lee understood, as she wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird," that many people would have trouble understanding her hero, Atticus Finch.
"Go Set a Watchman" reportedly was written before Ms Lee wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird", her only published novel that painted a poignant picture of Southern life in the early 20th Century.
For much of the past forty years, ever since it began to look as if Lee would not publish a second novel, a story has persisted that it was actually Capote who wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird".
When he testified, they had him read poems and diary entries in which he wrote: "to kill what you love when you can't have it seems so natural" and "violence always marks the end of a relationship".
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Which living person do you most admire, and why? Harper Lee, for writing To Kill A Mockingbird.
"When Harper Lee sat down to write To Kill a Mockingbird, she wasn't seeking awards or fame.
At the time, Lee had finished writing To Kill a Mockingbird, but it had not yet been published.
But one she did write, To Kill a Mockingbird, sold tens of millions of copies and regularly tops readers' lists of favourite books.
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