To Kill a Mockingbird

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ZusatztextThe explosion of racial hate and violence in a small Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic.Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature. RezensionMarvelous . . . Miss Lee's original characters are people to cherish in this winning first novel.- The New York Times AutorenportraitHarper Lee, geb. 1926 in Monroeville/Alabama, studierte ab 1945 Jura an der Universität in Alabama, ging aber vor dem Abschluss nach New York und arbeitete bei einer internationalen Luftverkehrsgesellschaft.