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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 "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize."
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Harper Lee sits on a couch in her New York City apartment, wearing a dark dress and a chunky white necklace. Estelle Evans as Calpurnia stands with hands on hips beside Phillip Alford as Jem Finch and Mary Badham as Scout Finch on a porch in To Kill a Mockingbird. Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch stands beside Philip Alford and Mary Badham in a jail scene from To Kill a Mockingbird, facing a seated group of men in hats. Harper Lee
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Modified link of Web site: Literary Devices - To Kill a Mockingbird Themes. Aug 28, 2026
Added more details of the novel's plot and information about its themes and criticism. Apr 27, 2026
Updated with reference to the Scottsboro case as being an inspiration. Apr 08, 2026
Fixed a typo. Nov 03, 2025
Article revised. Oct 27, 2025
Add new Web site: NPR - Excerpt: To Kill A Mockingbird. Oct 13, 2025
Add new Web site: Facing History and Ourselves - What Does It Mean "To Kill a Mockingbird"? Aug 29, 2025
Add new Web site: Journal of English Language and Literature - The Experience of "Othering" and Possibility of Social Justice: An Analysis of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" (PDF). Jul 11, 2025
Add new Web site: The Criterion: An International Journal in English - Racial Elements in Harper Lee’s "To Kill A Mockingbird" (PDF). May 16, 2025
Add new Web site: ABC listen - Nightlife - The Book Club: To Kill a Mockingbird. Apr 08, 2025
Questions and answers added. Feb 13, 2025
Add new Web site: International Journal of English Research - Harper lee?s to kill a mockingbird as a paragon of social stratification and legality (PDF). Feb 13, 2025
Add new Web site: Digital Commons at UM Carey Law - To Kill a Mockingbird (1962): Lawyering in an Unjust Society. Dec 19, 2024
Add new Web site: ODU Digital Commons - To Kill a Mockingbird and Legal Ethics: On the Role of Atticus Finch?s Attic Rhetoric in Fulfillment of Duties to Client, to Court, to Finch?s Attic Rhetoric in Fulfillment of Duties to Client, to Court, to Soci... Oct 24, 2024
Add new Web site: National Endowment for the Arts - To Kill a Mockingbird. Apr 15, 2024
Add new Web site: Academia - To Kill a Mockingbird: Race, Class and Innocence in the Contemporary Society INTRODUCTION. Apr 25, 2023
Add new Web site: Internet Archive - "To Kill a Mockingbird". Dec 02, 2022
Add new Web site: Literary Devices - To Kill a Mockingbird Themes. May 02, 2022
Number of copies sold updated. Oct 05, 2021
Article revised and updated. Aug 25, 2021
Changed “black” to “Black.” Jul 23, 2020
Media added. Feb 05, 2020
Article thoroughly revised, jointly with Laura Fine. Dec 14, 2018
Article thoroughly revised, jointly with Anna Foca. Dec 14, 2018
Noted the publication of Go Set a Watchman. Jul 14, 2015
Added information about Harper Lee's sequel, Go Set a Watchman, and other changes made. May 18, 2015
New article added. Oct 28, 2011
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