Harper Lee, the author of To Kill a Mockingbird, has been buried in a private funeral in her hometown in the US state of Alabama.
Close family and friends of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, who died on Friday aged 89, gathered for a church service in Monroeville.
To Kill a Mockingbird, about racial intolerance in the Deep South, sold more than 40m copies worldwide.
Lee released the sequel, Go Set a Watchman, in 2015 - 55 years later.
A statement from her family confirmed the acclaimed author had died in her sleep on Friday morning.
The funeral service was held at First United Methodist Church in Monroeville on Saturday, with history professor Wayne Flynt, a long-time friend, delivering the eulogy.
She was then laid to rest at her family burial plot, alongside her father and sister, Alice Lee.
The author used Monroeville as a model for the imaginary town of Maycomb, the setting of To Kill a Mockingbird.
The book remains a towering presence in American literature, telling the tale of a white lawyer defending a black man accused of rape.
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