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Who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird?

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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 was written by the American author Harper Lee. Published in 1960, the novel became a landmark work of American literature and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1961.12