Harper Lee
Books by Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
🏆 Winner of the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
To Kill a Mockingbird was, for a long time, the only novel Harper Lee ever published. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961. It depicts the racism she observed as a child in her hometown in Alabama and was first published in November 1960. Subsequently, an early 1957 version was published in 2015 under the title Go Set A Watchman, initially marketed as a sequel, but most likely more of a first draft. Harper Lee died in 2016 at the age of 89, and it remains unclear how she felt about the publication of her second book.
“It’s dated in many ways; it’s extremely sentimental. But it’s beautifully done – you can’t take a thing away from it.” Read more...
Scott Turow, Thriller and Crime Writer
Interviews where books by Harper Lee were recommended
The Best Legal Novels, recommended by Scott Turow
The bestselling author of legal thriller Presumed Innocent tells us about his own favourite legal novels.
The best books on Sex and Society, recommended by Eric Berkowitz
For thousands of years, human societies have tried to regulate sexual activity. The author of Sex and Punishment tells us why this should be so, and how what’s permissible has varied according to time and place.
The best books on Capital Punishment, recommended by Clive Stafford Smith
The lawyer, who’s defended many clients on death row, tells us why the legal system in capital cases is set up to fail, and says all of us should know more about what happens in an execution
The best books on Progressive America, recommended by Antonio Villaraigosa
In the last of our series of interviews on American progressivism, the mayor of Los Angeles chooses five novels and biographies that provide lessons from the past and show what a democratic society should aspire to be
The best books on Human Rights, recommended by Shami Chakrabarti
Director of Liberty Shami Chakrabarti says Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a thinly veiled metaphor for the War on Terror
