#to-kill-a-mockingbird

#to-kill-a-mockingbird

When To Kill a Mockingbird was published in the summer of 1960, it seemed to have sprung from nowhere, like an Alabamian Athena: a perfectly formed novel from an unknown southern writer without any evident precedent or antecedent. The book somehow managed to be both urgently of its time and instantly timeless, addressing the era's most turbulent issues, from the civil rights movement to the sexual revolution,