Harper Lee, who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning book To Kill A Mockingbird, has died, according to publisher Random House.
Multiple sources in Lee's hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, confirmed the writer's death at the age of 89.
Random House tweeted: "Today we lost a beautiful writer. RIP Harper Lee."
For decades it was thought Lee would never follow up To Kill A Mockingbird and the July 2015 publication of Go Set A Watchman was a surprising literary event - as well as a shock for devotees of her first novel.
In the first book, Atticus Finch was the adored father of the young narrator Scout and a lawyer who nobly but unsuccessfully defended a black man unjustly accused of raping a white woman.
Gregory Peck played Finch in a 1962 film adaptation of the book.
In Watchman an older Atticus had racial a views that left the grown-up Scout greatly disillusioned.
Lee reportedly had written Go Set A Watchman first but, at the suggestion of a wise editor, set it aside to tell a tale of race in the South from the child's point of view in the 1930s.
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