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The novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" by American author Harper Lee is published on July 11, 1960 and becomes an immediate bestseller. It won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1961 and it is now widely recognized as a classic of modern American literature. The story is told from the perspective of a young girl and is set in the 1930's South. It explores themes of racial injustice and moral growth with its characters loosely based on Lee's observations of her family, her neighbors and an event that occurred in 1936 near her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, when she was ten. Harper Lee died on February 2016 when she was 89 years old.
