Harper Lee, the author of To Kill a Mockingbird, has died at the age of 89.
The news was first confirmed by the mayor's office in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama.
The novelist was born Nelle Harper Lee on 28 April 1926.
In 1960, she published Mockingbird, a huge critical and commercial success which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and told the tale of a white lawyer defending a black man accused of rape in America's deep South.
The book sold more than 40 million copies worldwide.
A sequel, Go Set a Watchman, was published in 2015.
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