Harper Lee
1926 to 2016
11 documented presences
10 places
Quo Fuit places 11 dated presences for Harper Lee across 10 places, from 1926 to 2005. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926 – February 19, 2016) was an American novelist whose 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Where Harper Lee was documented, and when
28 April 1926exact date
Monroeville, Alabamaattested
“Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama, the youngest of four children of Frances Cunningham (née Finch) and Amasa Coleman Lee.”
source: Wikipedia: Harper Lee
1944year
University of Alabamaattested
“After graduating high school in 1944, like her eldest sister Alice Finch Lee, Lee attended the then all-female Huntingdon College in Montgomery for a year, then transferred to the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where she studied la…”
source: Wikipedia: Harper Lee
1944year
Montgomery, Alabamaattested
“After graduating high school in 1944, like her eldest sister Alice Finch Lee, Lee attended the then all-female Huntingdon College in Montgomery for a year, then transferred to the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where she studied la…”
source: Wikipedia: Harper Lee
1944year
Tuscaloosa, Alabamaattested
“After graduating high school in 1944, like her eldest sister Alice Finch Lee, Lee attended the then all-female Huntingdon College in Montgomery for a year, then transferred to the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where she studied la…”
source: Wikipedia: Harper Lee
1948year
Tuscaloosa, Alabamaattested
“In the summer of 1948, Lee attended a summer school program, "European Civilisation in the Twentieth Century", at Oxford University in England, financed by her father, who hoped—in vain, as it turned out—that the experience would make he…”
source: Wikipedia: Harper Lee
1948year
Oxford Universityattested
“In the summer of 1948, Lee attended a summer school program, "European Civilisation in the Twentieth Century", at Oxford University in England, financed by her father, who hoped—in vain, as it turned out—that the experience would make he…”
source: Wikipedia: Harper Lee
1948year
Englandattested
“In the summer of 1948, Lee attended a summer school program, "European Civilisation in the Twentieth Century", at Oxford University in England, financed by her father, who hoped—in vain, as it turned out—that the experience would make he…”
source: Wikipedia: Harper Lee
1949year
New York Cityattested
“In 1949, Lee moved to New York City and took jobs—first at a bookstore, then as an airline reservation agent—while writing in her spare time.”
source: Wikipedia: Harper Lee
1949year
New Yorkattested
“In 1949, Lee moved to New York City and took jobs—first at a bookstore, then as an airline reservation agent—while writing in her spare time.”
source: Wikipedia: Harper Lee
2005year
Los Angelesattested
“At the urging of Peck's widow, Veronique Peck, Lee traveled by train from Monroeville to Los Angeles in 2005 to accept the Los Angeles Public Library Literary Award.”
source: Wikipedia: Harper Lee
March 2005month
Philadelphiaattested
“In March 2005, Lee arrived in Philadelphia—her first trip to the city since signing with publisher Lippincott in 1960—to receive the inaugural ATTY Award for positive depictions of attorneys in the arts from the Spector Gadon & Rosen Fou…”
source: Wikipedia: Harper Lee
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Places Harper Lee is documented in
Tuscaloosa, Alabama2 presences · 1944 to 1948
England1 presence · 1948Los Angeles1 presence · 2005New York1 presence · 1949New York City1 presence · 1949Oxford University1 presence · 1948Philadelphia1 presence · 2005Monroeville, Alabama1 presence · 1926
Montgomery, Alabama1 presence · 1944
University of Alabama1 presence · 1944
Other places tied to Harper Lee in the record
In each of these, a source puts Harper Lee and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Harper Lee was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.
1926 to 1938period
Alabamamentioned
“Lee's mother was a homemaker; her father was a former newspaper editor, businessman, and lawyer, who also served in the Alabama State Legislature from 1926 to 1938.”
source: Wikipedia: Harper Lee
1948year
Tiffany'smentioned
“His first novel, the semi-autobiographical Other Voices, Other Rooms, had been published in 1948; a decade later Capote published Breakfast at Tiffany's, which became a film, a musical, and two stage plays.”
source: Wikipedia: Harper Lee
1959year
Holcomb, Kansasmentioned
“As the To Kill a Mockingbird manuscript went into publication production in 1959, Lee accompanied Capote to Holcomb, Kansas, to help him research what they thought would be an article on a small town's response to the murder of a farmer…”
source: Wikipedia: Harper Lee
15 April 1962exact date
Alabamamentioned
“His health worsened and he died in Alabama on April 15, 1962.”
source: Wikipedia: Harper Lee
1978year
Alexander City, Alabamamentioned
“Beginning in 1978, with her sisters' encouragement, Lee returned to Alabama and began a book about an Alabama serial murderer and the trial of his killer in Alexander City, under the working title The Reverend, but also put it aside when…”
source: Wikipedia: Harper Lee
1978year
Alabamamentioned
“Beginning in 1978, with her sisters' encouragement, Lee returned to Alabama and began a book about an Alabama serial murderer and the trial of his killer in Alexander City, under the working title The Reverend, but also put it aside when…”
source: Wikipedia: Harper Lee
1983year
Eufaula, Alabamamentioned
“When Lee attended the 1983 Alabama History and Heritage Festival in Eufaula, Alabama, as her sister had arranged, she presented the essay "Romance and High Adventure".”
source: Wikipedia: Harper Lee
7 May 2006exact date
Alabamamentioned
“On May 7, 2006, Lee wrote a letter to Oprah Winfrey (published in O, The Oprah Magazine in July 2006) about her love of books as a child and her dedication to the written word: "Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people hav…”
source: Wikipedia: Harper Lee
21 May 2006exact date
University of Notre Damementioned
“On May 21, 2006, she accepted an honorary degree from the University of Notre Dame, where graduating seniors saluted her with copies of To Kill a Mockingbird during the ceremony.”
source: Wikipedia: Harper Lee
3 May 2013exact date
United States District Court for the Southern District of New Yorkmentioned
“Second, I have said what I wanted to say, and I will not say it again." On May 3, 2013, Lee filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court to regain the copyright to To Kill a Mockingbird, seeking unspecified damages from a son-in-l…”
source: Wikipedia: Harper Lee
3 May 2013exact date
United Statesmentioned
“Second, I have said what I wanted to say, and I will not say it again." On May 3, 2013, Lee filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court to regain the copyright to To Kill a Mockingbird, seeking unspecified damages from a son-in-l…”
source: Wikipedia: Harper Lee
Documented at the same place, the same year
Andy WarholNew York City · 1949Dmitri ShostakovichNew York City · 1949Jean ArpNew York City · 1949Jasper JohnsNew York City · 1949Andy KaufmanNew York City · 1949Kevin RocheNew York City · 1949Linus PaulingUniversity of Oxford · 1948Sting (musician)Los Angeles · 2005Anne RiceLos Angeles · 2005Chester BenningtonLos Angeles · 2005Richard BurtonLondon · 1948Maurice BéjartLondon · 1948
Two people documented in the same place in the same year is a correlation, not a meeting. Quo Fuit will never say they met without a source that says so.
How to read this page
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Sources
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