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Bay Street Theater mourns the loss of Harper Lee's Sister, Alice and expresses its sympathy to her family and friends.

Alice Lee, the sister of the famous To Kill a Mockingbird author and an influential Alabama lawyer and church leader in her own right, died Monday at age 103.

Lee practiced law until a few years ago, following the footsteps of her father — the model for small-town lawyer Atticus Finch, the driving character in Mockingbird. For a time, Lee was Alabama's oldest practicing lawyer.

Perhaps most famously, Lee helped guard the privacy of her sister Nelle Harper Lee, who in 1961 won the Pulitzer Prize for her only published novel. Requests to interview Harper Lee often landed on the desk of Alice Lee, and the answer was always a firm, but polite, "No." -NPR

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Posted: November 19, 2014