When it was published in 1960, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird won the Pulitzer Prize for literature and became an instant classic. In 1962, it was made into a movie starring Gregory Peck, a role for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor. The story is based on Lee’s childhood in rural Alabama during the 1930s. The narrator is six year old Jean Louise Finch. The protagonist is her father, Atticus, who is a small town lawyer appointed by the court to represent Tom Robinson, a black man who has been charged with raping Mayella Ewell, a young […]