To Kill a Mockingbird is a classic novel by Harper Lee, first published in 1960. The novel tells the story of Scout and Jem Finch, two children growing up in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama during the 1930s. Through the eyes of the Finch children, the novel
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.