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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). Her second and final novel, Go Set a Watchman, was an earlier draft of Mockingbird that was published in July 2015 as a sequel.The plot and characters of To Kill a Mockingbird are loosely based on Lee's observations of her family and neighbors in Monroeville, Alabama, as well as a childhood event that occurred near her hometown in 1936. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harper Lee has received more than 8,468,406 page views. Her biography is available in 83 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 78 in 2019). Harper Lee is the 513th most popular writer (down from 512th in 2019), the 524th most popular biography from United States (up from 534th in 2019) and the 56th most popular American Writer.

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

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  • 8.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.19

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 83

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.70

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Harper Lee ranks 513 out of 5,755. Before her are J. M. Barrie, Rudaki, Attar of Nishapur, Henri Barbusse, Sei Shōnagon, and Natsume Sōseki. After her are Fausto Cercignani, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Michel Houellebecq, Ulrich von Hutten, Giacomo Leopardi, and Jostein Gaarder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Harper Lee ranks 25. Before her are Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Hugh Hefner, Paul Bocuse, Prince Claus of the Netherlands, John Coltrane, and Allen Ginsberg. After her are Ivan Illich, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Jerry Lewis, Clifford Geertz, David Attenborough, and Ben Roy Mottelson. Among people deceased in 2016, Harper Lee ranks 27. Before her are Carlos Alberto Torres, Jerome Bruner, João Havelange, Alvin Toffler, Elie Wiesel, and Prince. After her are Pierre Boulez, John Glenn, Andrzej Żuławski, Carrie Fisher, Nancy Reagan, and Věra Čáslavská.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harper Lee ranks 524 out of 18,182. Before her are Peter Fonda (1940), Betty White (1922), Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921), Irving Langmuir (1881), George Peppard (1928), and James Coburn (1928). After her are Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811), Ralph Lauren (1939), Roy Lichtenstein (1923), Bernie Sanders (1941), Isaac Singer (1811), and Bradley Cooper (1975).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Harper Lee ranks 56. Before her are Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804), Ellen G. White (1827), Robert A. Heinlein (1907), Kurt Vonnegut (1922), Allen Ginsberg (1926), and George R. R. Martin (1948). After her are Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811), Sidney Sheldon (1917), T. S. Eliot (1888), Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875), Washington Irving (1783), and Eugene O'Neill (1888).

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