Harper Lee
Hardcover
This Pulitzer Prize-winning classic grapples with racial injustice in the South of the ’30s. Atticus Finch and his daughter, Scout, bear the wrath of their town when he agrees to defend a black man charged with rape.
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Harper Lee
The author of one of the most important works in American fiction, Harper Lee remains an enigma, rising out of obscurity to write To Kill a Mockingbird, and determinedly vanishing from the public eye soon after its publication. Born in Monroeville, Alabama, in 1926 (where she became close friends with Truman Capote), she finished her classic book in 1959, after donations from her friends allowed her to take time off from her job and work uninterrupted. To Kill a Mockingbird was an immediate bestseller, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and, in 1999, was voted “Best Novel of the Century” in a poll by the Library Journal. She was also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom—the highest civilian award in the United States—in 2007.
