Born Nelle Harper Lee on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama. Harper Lee was the youngest of 4 children growing up in a small town as a tom boy. Harper’s mother was thought to have bipolar disorder most of her life, while her father was a lawyer and part of the Alabama State legislature, also being part owner of a local newspaper. In school she focused on writing and her studies, also being part of the glee club and the literary honor society. Harper attended the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa; while there she joined a sorority and eventually became the editor of the “Rammer Jammer” the schools newspaper. Lee was accepted to the schools undergraduate law problem, but after spending a summer at Oxford in England, she dropped out and moved to New York to follow what she truly loves-writing. During the first few years of her time in New York, she struggled but also befriended old friends such as a Broadway composer Michael Martin Brown, and his wife Joy. In 1956, the Browns Christmas present to Harper was that they would support her financially as she devoted all of her time to writing. The Browns also helped Harper find an agent, Maurice Crain. Harper Lee finished her award winning Pulitzer Prize manuscript by 1959, her one and only novel.
You used a variety of sentences, using commas throughout the post. You used lots of facts to explain Harper Lee's life. Your post allowed me to understand more about her and why she chose the things she wrote about in To Kill A Mockingbird. Atticus, the dad in the book, is a lot like her own real dad. I saw no grammatical mistakes and it was very well organized.
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