To Kill a Mockingbird
288 pages2021HarperCollins PublishersISBN 9780062798190
Comics & graphic novels, literaryFiction, coming of ageFiction, family lifeFiction, legalFathers and daughters, fictionSouthern states, fictionLawyers, fictionAfrican americans, fictionFiction, family life, general
About this book
To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1960 Southern Gothic novel by American author Harper Lee. It became instantly successful after its release; in the United States, it is widely read in high schools and middle schools. To Kill a Mockingbird won the Pulitzer Prize a year after its release, and it has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are loosely based on Lee's observations of her family, her neighbors and an event that occurred near her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, in 1936, when she was ten.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Published
- 2021
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN
- 9780062798190
- Language
- en
About Unknown Author
Nelle Harper Lee was an American novelist. She wrote the 1960 novel *To Kill a Mockingbird* that won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature. Lee received numerous accolades and honorary degrees, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007 which was awarded for her contribution to literature. She assisted her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book *In Cold Blood* (1966). Capote was the basis for the character Dill Harris in *To Kill a Mockingbird.*
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