... on April 28, 1926, in the town of Monroeville, Alabama. She was born as the youngest of four children to her parents, Amasa and Frances Lee. Lee's childhood was very similar to the Scout character in To Kill a Mockingbird, mainly in her hometown's similarity to the town of Maycomb, the fact that her father was a lawyer just like Atticus Finch, and that her ... into an apartment. In 1957, Lee sent the manuscript for To Kill a Mockingbird to the J.B. Lippincott Company, who told her to rewrite the novel because she originally wrote it as a series of short stories strung together. In 1960,...

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