Nelle Harper Lee is the youngest child of Amasa Coleman Lee based a book character on which of her childhood friends.
Nelle Harper Lee was born 28 April 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama, the youngest of four children (three girls and a boy) born to Amasa Coleman Lee and Francis Cunningham Finch Lee.
Nelle Harper Lee was an American novelist better known for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird, published in 1960.