to kill a mockingbird

     

To Kill a Mockingbir is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was instantly successful upon its release and has become a classic of modern American fiction. The novel is loosely based on the author's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old.

Trivia about to kill a mockingbird

  • Among the many movies that have premiered here at Radio City Music Hall was this 1962 film based on a novel by Harper Lee
  • This novel's widowed lawyer Atticus Finch had served in the state legislature
  • This Harper Lee novel has been required reading in Australian & Canadian schools as well as in the United States
  • This book says, "I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else left for us to learn, except possibly algebra"
  • Title that completes the line "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin..."
  • Atticus Finch
  • Harper Lee:"Matar un Ruiseñor"
  • Scout Finch lives with dad Atticus & brother Jem in Maycomb, Alabama in this classic novel
  • In the South it was thought a sin to do this, as in the title of a Harper Lee novel
  • "'Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin.'"
  • "His lips parted into a timid smile, and our neighbor's image blurred with my sudden tears. 'Hey, Boo,' I said"
  • In this 1962 classic, Gregory Peck's children watch him fight racial injustice in an Alabama courtroom
  • Harper Lee grew up in Monroeville, Alabama & set this novel in the similar-but-made-up town of Maycomb
  • Tim Johnson wanders Maycomb County as the community pet until he gets rabies in this novel
  • Chapter 10 of this 1960 novel begins, "Atticus was feeble: he was nearly fifty"
  • Jean Louise Finch
  • Lee:"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow"
  • (Oprah gives the clue from a chair) One of my favorite novels of all time is this Pulitzer Prize-winner set in Alabama & narrated by Scout Finch
  • This Southern novel about defense lawyer Atticus Finch is narrated by his daughter
  • This 1962 classic was narrated by Kim Stanley, who provided the grown-up voice of Scout
  • This novel begins, "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow"