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Posted by: Amelia Ferrell Knisely on Feb 19, 2016

Harper Lee, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning “To Kill a Mockingbird”, died today (Feb. 19) at the age of 89. Attorneys since 1960 have been inspired by Atticus Finch, a noble lawyer who unsuccessfully defended a black man in the South wrongly accused of raping a white woman. Reuters reports Lee lived privately following her book’s success and spent her final years in Monroeville, Alabama.