Books : To Kill a Mockingbird 1960
To Kill a Mockingbird : The American Great Novel I read & watched this great American creation in my High school English Class taught by Mr. Banks , he introduced my to all the great literature that I read as a teenager & made my fall in love with the written word . The classic American novel “ To Kill a Mockingbird ” by Harper Lee was published on July 11th, 1960 . It was Lee ’s first novel and was an immediate success, earning her critical acclaim and a Pulitzer Prize the following year. The themes of the novel revolved around morality, racial injustice, courage, and the loss of innocence. The plot focused on the trial of a falsely accused black man and the characters were loosely based Lee ’s own small town growing up in the segregated South during the Great Depression . In 1962 , it was turned into a successful Academy Award-winning film starring Gregory Peck who plays protagonist Atticus Finch and Mary Badham ...