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Education
As a child Lee attended a public school in Monroeville.
After her school days she attended a private college for women Huntingdon College for year.
A year for being in the private college she transferred to the University of Alabama. After graduation she studied at Oxford University.
Harper then returned to the University of Alabama ro study law, and dropped out 6 months before graduation.
Childhood
Lee was born into the parents of Amasa Coleman Finch Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch Lee.
Harper was the youngest out of her 4 siblings.
Growing up she attended a public school, and was known as the tomboy, and a precocious reader.
Family
Harper was the youngest of the four children from Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch Lee.
Important experiences
Her junior, Lee was accepted into the University of Law school.
She dropped out first semester of Law school, and moved on to pursue her dreams as a writer.
Lee told her family that Law isn't her thing, and she will start writing big time. She went to the University of Oxford in England as an exchange student.
Career
At 23 years old Lee went to New York City, and struggled for several years working at a ticket agent for Eastern Airlines).
The Brown's also helped Harper find agent, to help her with her novels. Which she eventually published TKAM in the early 1960s.
Lee's close friends Micheal Martin Brown and his wife Joy gave Harper a Christmas present to support he for a year so she could write full time.
