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Which writer was given a year of paid leave by her friends to make her literary debut?

Harper Lee was about thirty years old when she decided to seriously engage in literary activities and wrote several stories. However, she could only write in her free time from office work. At Christmas, Lee received an unexpected gift from two friends in the form of a paid annual leave in order to realize any of her plans. During that year, a draft of To Kill a Mockingbird was written, and after another three years of Lee's work with the editor, it was published and became a bestseller.

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