Harper Lee, Author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Dies at 89 (Published 2016)

transcript Harper Lee, 1926- 2016Harper Lee, whose first novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” about racial injustice in a small Alabama town, sold more than 40 million copies, died at the age of 89. Harper Lee, the famously reclusive author of To Kill a Mockingbird, spent most of her life out of the spotlight. Her first and most beloved work tells the story of Atticus Finch, a righteous Southern lawyer