The author of To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee has died at the age of 89.
Lee was born in Alabama in April 1926 and was the youngest of four children.
She'd been living in a nursing home close to her childhood home in recent years after suffering a stroke in 2007.
The 1961 novel sold millions of copies around the word.
A prequel to it 'Go Set A Watchman' was released last year.
Today we lost a beautiful writer. RIP Harper Lee. pic.twitter.com/aA0SgyV0j1
— Random House (@randomhouse) February 19, 2016
