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Harper Lee

1926 - 2016

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Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926 – February 19, 2016) was an American novelist whose 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature. She assisted her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book In Cold Blood (1966). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harper Lee has received more than 8,759,770 page views. Her biography is available in 85 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 83 in 2019). Harper Lee is the 649th most popular writer (down from 512th in 2019), the 668th most popular biography from United States (down from 524th in 2019) and the 66th most popular American Writer.

Harper Lee is most famous for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird.

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  • 8.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.91

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 85

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Go set a watchman
2015
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Juvenile Fiction
A father and his two sons spend a perfect day sledding together.
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To Kill a Mockingbird Display
2002

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Harper Lee ranks 649 out of 7,302. Before her are Kōbō Abe, Alexander Pope, Michael Crichton, Muriel Spark, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Juana Inés de la Cruz. After her are Martin Amis, Eugène Sue, Ernest Thompson Seton, Giosuè Carducci, Ryszard Kapuściński, and Pietro Metastasio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Harper Lee ranks 36. Before her are George Habash, John Coltrane, Beji Caid Essebsi, Allen Ginsberg, Tsung-Dao Lee, and Paul Berg. After her are Irwin Rose, Murray Rothbard, Valdas Adamkus, Mel Brooks, Necmettin Erbakan, and Louise Hay. Among people deceased in 2016, Harper Lee ranks 37. Before her are Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Pierre Boulez, Andrzej Żuławski, Walter Scheel, Gene Wilder, and John Glenn. After her are George Kennedy, Vera Rubin, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Věra Čáslavská, James Cronin, and Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harper Lee ranks 668 out of 20,380. Before her are George Peppard (1928), Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811), Bill Bixby (1934), David Copperfield (1956), Laura Branigan (1952), and Colin Powell (1937). After her are Irwin Rose (1926), Black Dahlia (1924), Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839), Michael Mann (1943), Donald Knuth (1938), and Charles H. Townes (1915).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Harper Lee ranks 66. Before her are Napoleon Hill (1883), John Irving (1942), Louisa May Alcott (1832), Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875), Michael Crichton (1942), and Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811). After her are Ursula K. Le Guin (1929), Washington Irving (1783), Irwin Shaw (1913), H. L. Mencken (1880), Truman Capote (1924), and Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867).

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