About the author
Harper Lee was an American novelist from Alabama. To Kill a Mockingbird, her defining work, places a child's moral education beside racial violence, legal failure, family memory, and the gap between a community's ideals and its conduct.
Lee lets Scout's limited understanding sharpen rather than soften the novel's account of Maycomb. Adult readers can see the racial and social rules operating around her even when she has not yet learned their names.
Where to start
Start with To Kill a Mockingbird. A lawyer defends a Black man accused of rape in Depression-era Alabama, seen through his daughter's eyes.
