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Harper Lee: US author of To Kill a Mockingbird dies aged 89

Harper Lee, the author of To Kill a Mockingbird, has died at the age of 89. The book remains a towering presence in American literature, telling the tale of a white lawyer defending a black man accused of rape in the Deep South. It sold more than 40 million copies worldwide and 55 years after it was published, in 2015, she...