In, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee refers to Oliver Optic, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Victor Appleton as three authors whose works were enjoyed by Scout, Jem and Dill. These 19th and 20th century authors had similar writing styles and plot formulations. Adventure stories, which were the genre of the tales written by these particular authors, were extremely appealing to the young children in Harper Lee’s novel. Scout and her friends wove detailed imaginary …showed first 75 words of 763 total…

…showed last 75 words of 763 total…realistic kids of their generation in America, in adventure stories. These three authors, Edgar Rice Burroughs, W.T Adams, and Edward Stratemeyer had a writer’s ability to quench the young people’s thirst for these novels. Harper Lee makes references to these three authors in her book because they were the most popular of their time. All achieved great accomplishments and fame in the world of literature through out their life times. Bibliography NOPE