To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee. Although it was written in 1960 it is set in the mid-1930s in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama. It is narrated by Scout Finch, a six-year-old ...

The success of To Kill a Mockingbird overwhelmed Harper Lee. Donald Uhrbrock / Time Life Pictures / Getty Images To spend an hour in Monroeville, Alabama, is to know why Harper Lee, the author of ...