Short fiction and essays by 'To Kill a Mockingbird' author Harper Lee to be published in October - Essays and early short stories by “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee will be published this fa ...

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee centres on Atticus Finch’s attempts to prove the innocence of Tom Robinson, a black man who has been wrongly accused of raping a white woman in 1930s Alabama.

The main character in To Kill a Mockingbird is Scout Finch. When the novel begins, Scout is almost six years old but the novel is actually narrated by Scout when she is much older and looking back ...