Harper Lee

Harper Lee is among the most celebrated novelists in America. Her legendary novel To Kill a Mockingbird, published in the 1960s, gained wide acceptance from its readers and became one of the classic novels in American literature. Lee, like many artists, has lived in a hiding and tight home security. Not fond of being out and about, Lee spends most of her time indoors and barely goes to public events.

Notably, she spends much of her life with her childhood friend, Truman Capote – a fellow writer responsible for Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Cold Blood. She has lived a celibate life as there are no known romantic relationships or involvement of hers. As such, Lee’s disinterest in romances and her boyish personality cued people to think that she has a different gender orientation and preference. Likewise, her readers speculate that the characters in her book, Dill and Scout – both eccentric characters of her book To Kill a Mockingbird, are based on her and her long-time friend Truman Capote. Upon her passing in 2016, Lee left an inheritance to her niece and nephews that could give them a good life for the years to come.