In what year did Harper Lee die?

Harper Lee died in 2016. She died in her sleep on February 19, 2016, in Monroeville, Alabama, at the age of 89.

Lee was born Nelle Harper Lee on April 28, 1926, and became one of the most influential American novelists of the twentieth century. Her first novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, appeared in 1960, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961, and eventually sold millions of copies worldwide.

Lee lived privately for much of her later life and published very little after her breakthrough novel. A related work, Go Set a Watchman, was published in 2015. It was presented as an earlier-written novel featuring an older Scout Finch, and its release generated substantial discussion because of its relationship to To Kill a Mockingbird.

The year of Lee’s death is sometimes confused with 2015 because that was the year Go Set a Watchman appeared. It is also distinct from the year of her sister Alice’s death, 2014. Lee’s funeral was held in Monroeville the day after her death.