Harper Lee’s only published novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, earns her $3.3 million in royalties annually, selling between 750,000 and a million copies each year and is popular among high schoolers. Lee won several awards and wrote the book after receiving a gift to take a year off work.
American author Harper Lee earns about 3.3 million US dollars (USD) in royalties each year for her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which is the only novel she ever published. This equates to approximately $9,000 USD each day. To Kill a Mockingbird tells the story of a white Alabama lawyer who defends a black man falsely accused of rape during the Great Depression through the point of view of the lawyer’s young daughter. The novel sells between 750,000 and a million copies each year, particularly to high schoolers, and was also made into a 1962 film that won three Academy Awards.
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Lee wrote To Kill a Mockingbird after receiving a Christmas present from his friends of enough money to take a year off work just to write.
The last official interview Lee gave to the media was in 1964, as of 2014.
Lee won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961, served on the National Council of the Arts in 1966 at the request of President Lyndon B. Johnson, and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007 by President George Bush.
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