Facts about Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

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   Harper Lee drew heavily on her own childhood in Monroeville, Alabama, and her neighbor Truman Capote is widely believed to have inspired the character Dill Harris.

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   Gregory Peck's portrayal of Atticus Finch in the 1962 film adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor.

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   Atticus Finch, the defense lawyer at the center of To Kill a Mockingbird, was named the greatest fictional hero of the 20th century by the American Film Institute based on the 1962 film adaptation.

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   The novel is narrated from the perspective of Scout Finch, a young girl growing up in the fictional Alabama town of Maycomb during the 1930s.

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   Published in 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961, Harper Lee's only novel at the time.

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