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American novelist Harper Lee, famous for the masterpiece “To Kill a Mockingbird” and for shunning the fame it brought her, has died aged 89, officials in her hometown said today.
A spokeswoman for the town of Monroeville, Alabama, where Lee spent her final years living in seclusion, confirmed local media reports of her death, saying: “She did pass away.”
Lee’s 1960 novel, which earned her a Pulitzer Prize, came to define racial injustice in the Depression—era South and became standard reading in classrooms across the world.
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