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Where is To Kill a Mockingbird set?

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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.

To Kill a Mockingbird is set in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Great Depression (1929–1939).12