Harper Lee

American novelist — author of To Kill a Mockingbird — Pulitzer Prize 1961 — who published one novel (plus Go Set a Watchman) and created the most widely read American novel about racial injustice.

Creates To Kill a Mockingbird as the moral touchstone for American racial justice — the novel's combination of childhood perspective, Atticus Finch as the idealized moral lawyer, and direct account of racial injustice in the American South made it the most widely read and assigned novel in American education.