To Kill a Mockingbird is a bildungsroman and crime novel written
by Harper Lee and published in 1960, which in the same year the Pulitzer Prize.
The protagonist and the narrator of this book is Jean Louise Finch, a child nicknamed Scout. She and her brother Jem, orphans of their mother, live in Maycomb (in Alabama) with a dark-skinned governess, Calpurnia, and their father, the lawyer Atticus Finch.