To Kill a Mockingbird
novel by Harper Lee
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To Kill a Mockingbird received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.[1]
Key Facts
- Author: Harper Lee[3]
- Award received: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction[4]
- Publisher: Lippincott[5]
- Genre: bildungsroman[6], Southern Gothic[7], social fiction[8], legal fiction[9]
- Followed by: Go Set a Watchman[10]
- Language of work or name: American English[11]
- Country of origin: United States[12]
- Publication date: July 11, 1960[13]
- Characters: Atticus Finch[14], Boo Radley[15], Jem Finch[16], Scout Finch[17]
- Has edition or translation: To Kill a Mockingbird, 60th Anniversary Edition[18]
- Narrative location: Alabama[19], Southern United States[20]
- Topic's main category: Category:To Kill a Mockingbird[21]
- Main subject: racism[22]
- Described at URL: http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/05/13/movies/hey-boo-harper-lee-and-to-kill-a-mockingbird.html[23]
- Nominated for: National Book Award for Nonfiction[24]
- Title: To Kill a Mockingbird[25]
- Has characteristic: debut novel[26]
- Different from: To Kill a Mockingbird[27]
- First line: When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.[28]
- Set in period: 1930s[29]
- Derivative work: To Kill a Mockingbird[30]
- Copyright status: copyrighted[31]
- Epigraph: Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.[32]
- Form of creative work: novel[33]
- Dewey Decimal Classification (works and editions): 813.54[34]
Why It Matters
To Kill a Mockingbird has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] It is known by 45 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]
FAQs
What awards did To Kill a Mockingbird receive?
Honors received include Pulitzer Prize for Fiction[4].