Inspired by Lee’s own childhood in Alabama, To Kill a Mockingbird features one of literature’s towering symbols of integrity and righteousness in the character of Atticus, based on Lee’s own ...

The main character in To Kill a Mockingbird is Scout Finch. When the novel begins, Scout is almost six years old but the novel is actually narrated by Scout when she is much older and looking back ...

After Lee's death in 2016, typescripts of her early fiction were discovered in her New York apartment. The previously unseen ...

To Kill A Mockingbird is one of the most cherished ... from protagonist to more of an observer, this crucial Mockingbird character is still front and center in the production.

Before she published “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Lee had written short stories in which she explored some of its themes and characters. By Alexandra Alter For years before she published “To ...

On July 17, 1960, the Chicago Tribune published its review of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird ... realized as major characters. But right behind them, set down with equal immediacy ...