Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, dies aged 89

'Literary Garbo' lived out her final years in Monroeville, Alabama, close to the house where she spent her childhood

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Harper Lee, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird, has died at the age of 89.

She had lived for several years in a nursing home close to the house where she grew up in Monroeville, Alabama, after suffering a stroke in 2007.

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