Novel

By: Harper Lee

Date: 1960

Source: Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1960. 40th Anniversary Edition, New York: HarperCollins, 1999, 169–177.

About the Author: Nelle Harper Lee (1926–) was born and raised in Monroeville, Alabama. As a child, she became fond of writing. However, To Kill a Mockingbird is her only published book, earning her the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1961. The daughter of a lawyer, Lee studied law at the University of Alabama and attended Oxford University in England.

Introduction

To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960, not long after the landmark 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education and during a time of increasing civil rights unrest. The Brown decision created a law to integrate schools. This was particularly controversial in the South. It was also a time...