---
name: "Harper Lee"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/harper-lee"
fi1m_id: "harper-lee"
imdb_id: "nm0497369"
tmdb_id: 8485
wikidata_id: "Q182658"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "28 April 1926"
died: "16 February 2016"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-17T23:19:06.219428+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Harper Lee

## Identity

Harper Lee

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/harper-lee
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** harper-lee
- **IMDb ID:** nm0497369
- **TMDB ID:** 8485
- **Wikidata ID:** Q182658
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_Lee, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q182658, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0497369/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8485

Producer. Born 28 April 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama, USA. Died 16 February 2016.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 28 April 1926, Monroeville, Alabama, USA
- **Died:** 16 February 2016
- **Also known as:** Nelle Harper Lee
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_Lee, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q182658, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0497369/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8485

## Biography

Harper Lee was an American writer, also known as Nelle Harper Lee. Her novel *To Kill a Mockingbird* (1960) formed the basis for the 1962 film of the same name, on which she is credited as novelist and producer.

Born in Monroeville, Alabama, Lee studied law before moving to New York to write. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961. The film adaptation was directed by Robert Mulligan, with a screenplay by Horton Foote and starring Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch. Lee consulted on the production.

Lee assisted her friend Truman Capote with research for his book *In Cold Blood* (1966). She published no further novels during her lifetime.

*Sources: encyclopediaofalabama.org, britannica.com, history.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *To Kill a Mockingbird* (1962), Fi1m 84, Producer, Novel — [page](https://film.one/film/to-kill-a-mockingbird.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *To Kill a Mockingbird* (1962), Producer, Novel — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/to-kill-a-mockingbird.md)

## Gallery

- ![Harper Lee](https://film.one/media/person/103536/gallery-082d665f59ee.jpg) Harper Lee — Eric Draper, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/Harper_Lee_Medal_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Harper Lee Way sign on the Upper East Side](https://film.one/media/person/103536/gallery-6f61e10463ec.jpg) Harper Lee Way sign on the Upper East Side — Superraptor123, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Harper_Lee_Way_sign_on_the_Upper_East_Side.jpg/1280px-Harper_Lee_Way_sign_on_the_Upper_East_Side.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Truman Capote's photo portrait of Harper Lee from the back cover of the first-edition dust jacket for Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird. (1960)](https://film.one/media/person/103536/gallery-bc70cab8b30a.jpg) Truman Capote's photo portrait of Harper Lee from the back cover of the first-edition dust jacket for Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird. (1960) — Photo credited to Truman Capote., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Photo_portrait_of_Harper_Lee_%28To_Kill_a_Mockingbird_dust_jacket%2C_1960%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![President George W. Bush awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to author Harper Lee during a ceremony Monday, Nov. 5, 2007, in the East Room. "To Kill a Mock](https://film.one/media/person/103536/gallery-0c5366d56fc5.jpg) President George W. Bush awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to author Harper Lee during a ceremony Monday, Nov. 5, 2007, in the East Room. "To Kill a Mock — Eric Draper, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/President_George_W_Bush_awards_the_Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom_to_Harper_Lee.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Other awards — 3 won

- Alabama Women's Hall of Fame 2019: Alabama Women's Hall of Fame (won)
- Presidential Medal of Freedom 2007: Presidential Medal of Freedom (won)
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1961: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (won), for *To Kill a Mockingbird*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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