Authors born on April 28

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• 1926 Harper Lee

  Harper Lee was an American novelist best known for her 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird.' Her work, dealing with themes of racial injustice and moral growth, is a seminal text in American literature and has had a profound impact on readers and the cultural landscape. Lee's literary career was largely defined by this one extraordinary book, and … [bio]