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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.
Thank you, Bruce Lear, for addressing the absurd controversy surrounding the novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” (“Discomfort leads to understanding,” Nov. 19). Critics of this gigantic ...
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.
A famous quote from the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, or from the book's subsequent film adaptation, To Kill a Mockingbird. Boo Radley, the character in To Kill A Mockingbird at whom the quote is directed. "Hey, Boo": Harper Lee and To Kill A Mockingbird, a 2010 documentary film about the novel.
On Friday morning, the world learned of the passing of Harper Lee, the beloved author of one of the most influential books in American history, To Kill a Mockingbird. One of two books that Lee had ...
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.
Tom Robinson, right, played by Yaegel T. Welch, is questioned on the stand by Atticus Finch, played by Richard Thomas, in "To Kill a Mockingbird." “This is a wonderful character,” Thomas says.
When the city of Chicago organized a One City One Book program in 2001 based on To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee was unavailable to speak, so Johnson was invited to Chicago to present the book to the city. [1] Johnson, a native of North Carolina, earned a PhD in Literature at the University of Illinois in 1973.