The book was written by Harper Lee, and is set in the deep south. The book deals with very serious issues such as racial discrimination and rape while still managing to be a warm and humorous book, all in all.
To Kill a Mockingbird is widely used in schools as a required reading material, to give the children something to read that deals with morals and equality. The narrator's father, Atticus Finch, is a lawyer and has served as a moral standard for people to conform to amongst readers of the book and children everywhere.
A fun little tidbit of information is that Harper's editors had told her from the beginning that the book would probably not sell very well. Though I do believe that history has shown them to be very much mistaken, indeed.
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