To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1960 novel by Harper Lee, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961. It was made into an Academy Award-winning motion picture starring Gregory Peck by director Robert Mulligan in 1962. A coming-of-age story, it is told from the point of view of Jean Louise "Scout" Finch, the young daughter of Atticus Finch, an educated lawyer in Maycomb, Alabama, a small town in the deep South of the United States. She is accompanied by her brother Jem and their mutual friend Dill.

Trivia

• The character of Boo Radley — a mysterious neighbor who lives quietly in his dark house and is feared by the local children — gave his name to the British band The Boo Radleys. In the film, he is played by Robert Duvall, in his film debut.
• Demi Moore and Bruce Willis named their daughter "Scout" after the book's young heroine.
• This is director Cameron Crowe's favorite film, and several of his films contain explicit references. The movie Almost Famous begins with the protagonist and his mother coming out of a movie theatre showing To Kill a Mockingbird; Vanilla Sky actually shows a clip of the movie, with Atticus and Scout as remembered by the lead character, David Aames.
• The American Film Institute named Atticus Finch the greatest movie hero of the 20th century.
• The Knoxville,TN based rock band Atticus was inspired by To Kill a Mockingbird