Published in 1960, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ follows Scout Finch as her father, lawyer Atticus Finch, defends Tom Robinson, a Black man falsely accused of raping a white woman in Depression-era Alabama. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961 and became one of the most widely recognised American novels of the twentieth century. More than 40 million copies have been sold worldwide, and the book has been translated into 40 languages. Lee, who died in 2016 aged 89, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007.
