To Kill A Mockingbird is a
1960 novel by
Harper Lee, which won the
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in
1961. It is told from the point of view of Jean Louise "Scout" Finch, the young daughter of Atticus Finch, an educated lawyer in the
deep South[?]. The
protagonist watches as her father defends a black man accused of rape in a
racist community. The book was adapted into an award-winning movie in
1962, directed by
Robert Mulligan[?] and starring
Gregory Peck.
The film version of the story (1962) won three Academy Awards, including Best Actor. It was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 1995.
The movie also has the screen debut of actor Robert Duvall.