Harper Lee's 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel — narrated by Scout Finch — following her father Atticus's defense of a Black man falsely accused of rape in 1930s Alabama — the most widely read American novel about racial injustice.
Creates Atticus Finch as the archetypal moral lawyer — To Kill a Mockingbird provides the most influential fictional model of moral courage in the American legal system; Atticus's defense of Tom Robinson despite community pressure is the standard against which American lawyers measure professional integrity.
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