But the weight of history will only tolerate so much. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet heroism of one man's struggle for justice. Writing through the young eyes of Finch's children Scout and Jem, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in small-town Alabama during the mid-1930s Depression years. Lawyer Atticus Finch defends Tom Robinson - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Her numerous honors include the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which she was awarded in 2007. Her other novel, Go Set a Watchman, was published in 2015. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird, one of the most important books in American history. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father - a crusading local lawyer - risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime. Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep Southand the. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than 40 languages, sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and voted one of the best novels of the 20th century by librarians across the United States. A masterfully crafted novel from start to finish, To Kill a Mockingbird is a modern-day classic that is essential reading for readers in any stage of life.
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