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To Kill a Mockingbird

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noun

  1. a novel (1960) by Harper Lee.


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His past work also includes featuring in the 2022 BBC horror series Red Rose, and he later made his West End debut in Aaron Sorkin's adaption of To Kill A Mockingbird.

From BBC

The stories are prep work, mostly Alabama vignettes set during the 1930s of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” when Lee was a child, or the 1950s of “Go Set a Watchman,” when Lee would return periodically from living in New York.

From The Wall Street Journal

Born in rural Monroeville, Ala., in 1926, the author of “To Kill a Mockingbird” — whose first name is Nelle, her grandmother Ellen’s name spelled backward — spent much of her adult life in Manhattan after moving there in 1949.

From Los Angeles Times

“To Kill a Mockingbird,” the classic 1960 novel about racism in a small Southern town, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, became a staple of high school reading lists and turned its author into one of American literature’s most revered figures.

From Los Angeles Times

Atticus Finch, the anti-racist hero of To Kill A Mockingbird, is portrayed as a racist.

From BBC