To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel written by Harper Lee. It was published in 1960
by J.B. Lippincott Company in Philadelphia & New York. This is the only book that
Harper Lee has ever written. It is also one of the best-loved novels in American
literature, winning the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Lee is a very private person who doesn't
grant interviews, although her literary agent says she divides her time between her
hometown of Monroeville, Alabama and New York. She also enjoys reading, and her
favorite authors are Jane Austen, Charles Lamb, and Robert Louis Stevenson. She has
said that her novel about a white southern lawyer defending an innocent black man is not
autobiographical. But her father was a lawyer, and the inspiration for the character
Atticus Finch.
To Kill a Mockingbird is about a young girl named Jean-Louise Finch, who they
call Scout, her brother Jeremy, nick-named Jem, and many other characters. Their
father Atticus, who is a......
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