Funeral For Mockingbird Author Harper Lee

A memorial service took place at a church in the writer's home town of Monroeville following her death on Friday at the age of 89.

US author Harper Lee, who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill A Mockingbird, has been laid to rest in Alabama.

The 89-year-old novelist, who died in her sleep on Friday, was buried in a private ceremony attended by close friends and family.

Earlier a memorial service took place at a church in her home town of Monroeville, which she used it as the basis for the fictional Maycomb in the 1960 novel.

A few dozen people were at the service at First United Methodist Church where Lee's long-time friend, history professor Wayne Flynt, read a eulogy.

Her coffin was then taken by silver hearse to a nearby cemetery where her parents A.C. Lee and Frances Finch Lee and sister Alice Lee are buried.

    The author was honoured many times during her career, such as during this dinner in 2005 organised by the Library Foundation of Los Angeles

    US author Harper Lee has died at the age of 89 after passing away in her sleep

    The author was honoured many times during her career, such as during this dinner in 2005 organised by the Library Foundation of Los Angeles

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    US author Harper Lee has died at the age of 89 after passing away in her sleep

Mockingbird, about a child's eye view of racial injustice in the 1930s, became standard reading for millions of young people.

By 2015, its sales were reported to be more than 40 million worldwide, making it one of the most widely read American novels of the 20th century.

For decades, Lee lived a largely reclusive life and surprised readers when a second book about racial injustice was published last year.

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In the first novel, Atticus Finch was the adored father of young narrator Scout and a lawyer who nobly but unsuccessfully defended a black man unjustly accused of raping a white woman.

In Watchman, which she reportedly wrote before Mockingbird, an older Atticus had racial views that left the grown-up Scout disillusioned