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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.
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
This has proved controversial to many readers, unaware perhaps that although To Kill a Mockingbird was published first, Watchman is the first draft of the text that later became Mockingbird and the characterizations and key plot details between the two books are not only different but sometimes contradictory. [20]
To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee: Offensive language, racism, unsuited to age group 1960 15 21 40 Tricks: Ellen Hopkins: 2009 98 — — Tropic of Cancer: Henry Miller: Sexual content 1934 — — — Twilight (series) Stephenie Meyer: Religious viewpoint, violence, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group 2005–2008 — — — Two Boys ...
Gregory Peck played beloved father Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, and according to his children, the Oscar-winning actor wasn’t too far off the mark in real life. “Of all the children ...
Watching — and reading — Harper Lee's seminal story, To Kill a Mockingbird, has been a rite of passage for multiple generations of American teens.But for the film's star, Mary Badham ...
It is now accepted that it was a first draft of To Kill a Mockingbird, with many passages in that book being used again. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The title comes from the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible : "For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman , let him declare what he seeth" (Chapter 21, Verse 6), [ 5 ] which is quoted in the ...
The Register has not documented any cases of "To Kill a Mockingbird" being challenged or banned in an Iowa school since August 2020, when its tracking started, nor is it aware of the novel being ...