DHAKA: Harper Lee, the author of To Kill A Mockingbird, has died at the age of 89.

The death was confirmed by the mayor’s office in her hometown of Monroeville in Alabama of USA, reports the BBC.

The novelist was born Nelle Harper Lee on April 28 in 1926 in Monroeville of Alabama.

In 1960, she published To Kill A Mockingbird, which was a huge critical and commercial success and won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

It sold more than 30 million copies worldwide.

She did not release another novel until last year, when Go Set A Watchman was published.

She was the youngest of four children of lawyer Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch Lee.

She was a guardedly private person, respected and protected by residents of her town, rarely giving interviews.

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