{"id":1980,"date":"2011-07-11T21:27:11","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T18:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=1980"},"modified":"2011-07-06T21:28:01","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T18:28:01","slug":"50-years-11-jul-1960-harper-lees-kill-mockingbird-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/uncategorized\/50-years-11-jul-1960-harper-lees-kill-mockingbird-published\/","title":{"rendered":"50 years ago (11 Jul 1960) Harper Lee\u2019s novel \u2018To Kill a Mockingbird\u2019 was published"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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. The plot and characters are loosely based on the author&#8217;s observations of her family and neighbors, as well as on an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old.<\/p>\n<p>The novel is renowned for its warmth and humor, despite dealing with the serious issues of rape and racial inequality. The narrator&#8217;s father, Atticus Finch, has served as a moral hero for many readers and as a model of integrity for lawyers. One critic explains the novel&#8217;s impact by writing, &#8220;In the twentieth century, To Kill a Mockingbird is probably the most widely read book dealing with race in America, and its protagonist, Atticus Finch, the most enduring fictional image of racial heroism [<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/To_Kill_a_Mockingbird\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. The plot and characters are loosely based on the author&#8217;s observations of her family and neighbors, as well as on an event that occurred near&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/uncategorized\/50-years-11-jul-1960-harper-lees-kill-mockingbird-published\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1258,"url":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/uncategorized\/11th-july-1960-50-years-today-harper-lee-releases-critically-acclaimed-kill-mockingbird\/","url_meta":{"origin":1980,"position":0},"title":"11th July 1960 (50 years ago today) Harper Lee releases her critically acclaimed novel To Kill a Mockingbird","author":"Russel Tarr","date":"July 11, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Nelle Harper Lee (born April 28, 1926) is an American author, best known for her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird. 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