Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, was born in Monroeville, Alabama, on April 28th, 1926. Monroeville is a small town with a population of about 7,000, halfway between Montgomery and Mobile, and is the basis for Maycomb, the setting of To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper is a descendent of the Confederate Army Civil War Commander Robert E. Lee. Harper, youngest of four children, was born to Frances Lee and Amasa Lee. Frances was a newspaper editor, a senator, and a lawyer, and served as the basis for Atticus. Amasa's maiden name is Finch, which Lee used as the last name of the main characters in To Kill a Mockingbird.…
