Harper Lee, the author known for her classic novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird' has died at the age of 89.
Up until 2015 she had written only one book. She released her second book 'Go Set a Watchman' in 2015.
According to news source she had lived in a nursing home, which was less than a mile from her house in Monroeville, Alabama, where she had grown up. She had lived in the nursing home for several years.
"To Kill a Mockingbird," published in 1960, introduced Finch, Scout, Boo Radley and other beloved literary characters. The book was adapted into an Oscar-winning movie starring Gregory Peck as Atticus and has become standard reading in schools and other reading programs, with worldwide sales topping 40 million copies.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1961, and widely praised as a sensitive portrait of racial tension as seen through the eyes of a child in 1930s Alabama, it also has been criticized as sentimental and paternalistic.
Last year saw the publication of Lee's manuscript, "Go Set a Watchman," described as a first draft of the story that evolved into "Mockingbird." Critics and readers were startled to find the heroic Atticus of "Mockingbird" disparaging blacks and condemning the Supreme Court's decision to outlaw segregation in public schools.
(With Inputs From AP)