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Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960. Instantly successful, widely read in middle and high schools in the United States, it has become a classic of modern American literature, winning the Pulitzer Prize. [1]
To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by the American author Harper Lee. It was published in July 1960 and became instantly successful. 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.
In the show Awkward, Sadie references To Kill a Mockingbird by constantly calling Austin Welch, Boo Radley. In the episode "Mountain Wedding" of The Andy Griffith Show, Dud Wash says that Ernest T. Bass' cousin said that Bass "went off into the woods to kill a mockingbird", to which Andy Taylor responds, "He doesn't sound like a very nice person."
To Kill a Mockingbird's ranking by an organization of British librarians on a list of books that everyone should read before they die. 2: The ranking of The Bible on that same list
Brütal Legend features a supporting character named Ophelia, voiced by Jennifer Hale. [55] Her name and story are references to the plot of Hamlet. Elsinore retells Hamlet from the point of view of Ophelia, who is caught in a time loop that always results in her death and seeks to escape it while investigating mysteries in the castle.
To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1962 American coming-of-age legal drama crime film directed by Robert Mulligan starring Gregory Peck and Mary Badham, with Phillip Alford, John Megna, Frank Overton, James Anderson, and Brock Peters in supporting roles. It marked the film debut of Robert Duvall, William Windom, and Alice Ghostley.
Mary Badham had no film acting experience before being cast in To Kill a Mockingbird. The Oscar in her category went to another child actress, Patty Duke , for The Miracle Worker . During filming, Badham became particularly close to actor Gregory Peck , who played Scout's father, Atticus Finch ; she kept in contact with him, always calling him ...
Atticus Finch is a fictional character and the protagonist of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird.A preliminary version of the character also appears in the novel Go Set a Watchman, written in the mid-1950s but not published until 2015.