es, perhaps four. In 1990 she was one of five recipients at the University of Alabama. She did not speak or give and interview. In 1997 she was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters at Spring Hill College in Mobile, AL.
             To Kill a Mockingbird, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1961, became an international bestseller. It was adapted into screen in 1962. Lee was thirty-four years old when the worked was published, and it has remained her only novel. The setting and several characters are drawn from life. Finch was the maiden name of her mother and the character of Dill was drawn from Capote, Lee's childhood friend. The trial itself parallels to the famous "Scottboro Trial," in which the charge was rape. In both, too, the defendants were African American men and the accusers were white women.
             Although her first novel gained a huge success, Harper Lee did not continue her career as a writer. She returned from New York to Monroeville, where she has lived avoiding interviews. Har
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