To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel written by Harper Lee. It was published in 1960 by J.B. Lippincott Company in Philadelphia & New York. This is the only book that Harper Lee has ever written. It is also one of the best-loved novels in American literature, winning the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Lee is a very private person who doesn’t grant interviews, although her literary agent says she divides her time between her hometown …showed first 75 words of 765 total…

…showed last 75 words of 765 total…Jem face throughout the story, especially since they had no mother; just Calpurnia, who was their housekeeper, and their father who wasn’t home as much as he should have been when Scout and Jem are at such young ages. In conclusion, I would recommend this book to anyone high school age or older. I think it teaches a lot of things that everyone has gone through or everyone will have to go through someday.