Alabama publication Al.com reports that Harper Lee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of To Kill a Mockingbird, has died at the age of 89.
Go Set a Watchman, the reclusive author’s second book, was the subject of much controversy after its 2015 release; although a state investigation found that Lee, who had a stroke in 2007 and was living in a nursing home, was not coerced into publishing the book, the novel’s quality and the fact that it surfaced directly after her sister’s death (Alice Lee had long served as the author’s counsel and “gatekeeper”) continued to raise questions.
According to Al.com, multiple sources from Lee’s hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, confirmed her death on Friday morning.
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