To Kill a Mocking Bird

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird received one of the Pulitzer awards granted annually for distinguished fiction dealing preferably with the American scene. Placed side by side they comment revealingly not only on life in two of the state's small towns fifty years and three hundred miles apart but also on the changing techniques of Southern fiction.

Maycomb of 1932-1935, the county seat of Maycomb County, is the locale of Mockingbird. This fictional town is "some twenty miles east of Finch's Landing … on the banks of the Alabama River" in the southwestern part of the state (Miss ...