Harper Lee Reportedly Dead at 89
Citing multiple sources in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, AL.com is reporting that Harper Lee has died. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of To Kill a Mockingbird was 89 years old.
Lee had been living in Monroeville, AL.com reports, since she suffered a stroke in 2007. Lee’s second novel, Go Set a Watchman, was controversially published last year.
Earlier this month, The New York Times reported that Aaron Sorkin is adapting To Kill a Mockingbird for Broadway. Lee’s literary agent Andrew Nurnberg told the Times that “while Nelle had always had misgivings about anyone who might want to bring To Kill a Mockingbird to Broadway—and there have been many approaches over the years—she finally decided that [producer] Scott [Rudin] would be the right person to embrace this.”
According to AL.com, services for Lee have yet to be announced.
