To Kill a Mockingbird also shares many connections with Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. It’s set 20 years after the events of Mockingbird. On page 342 in Chapter 28, what is the significance of Jem saying to Scout, Boo must not be at home. In 2015, Lee’s publisher released Go Set a Watchman, which was billed as a sequel to Mockingbird but was actually her first draft of Mockingbird. Gregory Peck won an Oscar® for his brilliant portrayal of a Southern lawyer who compassionately defends a black man accused of rape in this film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Other notable works of Southern literature include Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, and Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man is Hard to Find. Richard Thomas stars as Atticus Finch in Aaron Sorkin’s version of To Kill a Mockingbird, June 27 through July 2 at The Bushnell. Mockingbird therefore falls into a particular subset of American literature called Southern literature, since it deals explicitly and implicitly with themes and issues that were uniquely Southern. While it is the story of Scout’s growing up, it is also a story of the racially charged atmosphere in the town in the years of the Great Depression. To Kill a Mockingbird is set in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama. Lee died in her sleep in 2016 at age 89, having received numerous honorary degrees, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the National Medal of Arts. Its publication was controversial, as some believed Lee’s publisher took advantage of her old age to release the book (though an investigation by the State of Alabama found no evidence of this). At that point, her publisher released Go Set a Watchman, which Lee wrote initially as a first draft of Mockingbird. By the end of Lees novel we are led to believe that Atticus had a great chance of actually getting Tom Robinson acquitted, if the latter had just been a good. Aside from a few essays, she published nothing else until 2015. After 1960, Lee retreated from public life to her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. She published To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960, which became an immediate and immense success-it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961 and was voted “Best Novel of the Century” by a Library Journal poll in 1999. She earned a law degree from the University of Alabama in 1949 and spent a year in Oxford, England, but moved to New York in 1950 to focus on writing. Nelle Harper Lee was the youngest of four children born to Amasa Lee and Frances Finch Lee. Gregory Peck won an Oscar® for his brilliant portrayal of a Southern lawyer who compassionately defends a black man accused of rape in this film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

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