{"id":9150,"date":"2016-02-19T17:15:30","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T17:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/?p=9150"},"modified":"2016-02-19T17:15:30","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T17:15:30","slug":"to-kill-a-mockingbird-author-harper-lee-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2016\/02\/19\/to-kill-a-mockingbird-author-harper-lee-has-died\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;To Kill A Mockingbird&#039; author Harper Lee has died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/6320407696_29f9ecf631_o-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9151\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9151\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/6320407696_29f9ecf631_o-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"6320407696_29f9ecf631_o (1)\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9151\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/6320407696_29f9ecf631_o-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"6320407696_29f9ecf631_o (1)\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/noscript><\/a>HARPER Lee, the author of To Kill A Mockingbird, has died aged 69.<br \/>\nThe news was confirmed by the mayor&#8217;s office in Monroeville, Alabama.<br \/>\nIn 1960 Lee published To Kill A Mockingbird, which dealt with issues of rape and racial inequality and won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.<br \/>\nThis famous work has been part of the English and Welsh syllabus for years and has been studied by countless students across the country.<br \/>\nTo Kill a Mockingbird, which has sold more than 30m copies world wide, was Lee\u2019s only published book until Go Set a Watchman in July last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARPER Lee, the author of To Kill A Mockingbird, has died aged 69. 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