Mockingbird author is memorialised as she lived: quietly and privately

Monroeville, Alabama

FRIENDS and family from around the corner and across the US gathered here on Saturday to pay their final respects to Harper Lee, the author whose Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about racial inequality in the South during the Jim Crow era inspired generations of readers.

A dense fog that had shrouded this small town lifted as mourners filed into the First United Methodist Church, which Lee had attended for many years, for a simple, private service that lasted about an hour.