Her contribution to American literature was a singleton,but the reclusive author managed to capture the zeitgeist twiceHarper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) came out just ahead of the civil rights movement, anticipating its moral fervour and many of its significant racial victories.
Based on the notorious Scottsboro case and a rape trial in her home town of Monroeville, or Alabama,in the 1930s, and portraying her lawyer father as Atticus Finch, and a saintly hero who opposes the racism of his white community even while he understands and forgives it,Mockingbird was an instant classic, winning the Pulitzer prize and selling millions of copies worldwide. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com