Harper Lee is born in Monroeville, Alabama on April 28, 1926.
Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama. She was the youngest child of lawyer Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch Lee. This setting became integral to her later writing, especially in the depiction of characters and themes in her acclaimed novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird." Lee grew up in a close-knit family, surrounded by the socio-political realities of the American South, which profoundly influenced her literary perspective.