To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was instantly successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature, widely read in U.S. high schools. The story takes place during three years of the Great Depression in the fictional "tired old town" of Maycomb, Alabama. This is a list of characters from the novel.
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