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How many copies of To Kill a Mockingbird have been sold worldwide?

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Book cover for To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, featuring a silhouette of a child under a tree and a large moon, with the title in script and — To Kill a Mockingbird This book cover is one of many given to Harper Lee's classic work *To Kill a Mockingbird* (1960). The novel won a Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and the next year was made into an Academy Award-winning film.

Since its publication in 1960, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird has become an enduring work of American literature. The novel has been translated into approximately 40 languages and has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide.12