Nelle Harper Lee Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28 1926 in Monroeville Alabama, a city of about 7,000 people in Monroe County, which has about 24,000 people. Monroeville is in southwest Alabama, about halfway between Montgomery and Mobile. She is the youngest of four children of Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Finch Lee. Harper Lee attended Huntingdon College 1944-45, studied law at University of Alabama 1945-49, and studied one year at Oxford University. In the 1950s she …showed first 75 words of 1687 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1687 total…had only recently been called back into active duty. He was reported to have been an outstanding high school athlete, and to have graduated in industrial engineering at Auburn. He served in World War II. Prior to being called back to active duty he served as a district supervisor of the Veteran's Training Program for twelve Southwest Alabama counties. He was married to Sara Anne McCall and had two children, Mary McCall and Edwin Coleman.