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Tributes have been paid to the award-winning author Harper Lee, who has died at the age of 89 in her hometown in Alabama.

Jeanie Thompson, who is the executive director of the Alabama Writers鈥� Forum, met Harper Lee and said she was 鈥渁 beloved figure, not just in Alabama, but evidently everywhere in the world鈥�.

Jeanie went on to say Harper Lee had put her hometown of Monroeville on the map and 鈥渂rought tremendous attention to the town鈥�.

To Kill a Mockingbird was Harper Lee鈥檚 first novel, which was published in 1960. The book is the story of prejudice in the American Deep South of the 1930s, and it sold more than forty million copies. Her second novel, Go Set a Watchman, was published in 2015.

This clip is originally from 5 live Drive on Friday 19 February 2016.