HARPER LEE BIOGRAPHY
The youngest daughter of Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch Lee, Nelle Harper
Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama (a small town in Monroe County between Montgomery and
Mobile) on April 28, 1926. Lee was raised with two sisters, Alice and Louise, and a brother, Edwin
Coleman Lee. Both her sisters are still living, but her brother died of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage in
1951.
Amasa Lee grew up in Florida and carne to Monroe County in the early 1900s. He worked as a
bookkeeper until 1915, when he passed the bar and began practicing law. Mr. Lee also served on the
Alabama State Legislature from 1926 to 1938, and as editor of The Monroe Journal from 1929 to
1947.
Frances Finch was from a Virginia family who set ѱ