To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1962 American drama film directed by Robert Mulligan and based on Harper Lee's 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. Set in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Great Depression, the film tells the story of Atticus
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.