Bloom's How to Write about Harper Lee

Published in 1960 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961, To Kill a Mockingbird remains required reading for countless students. Harper Lee's coming-of-age tale of its young narrator, Jean Louise "Scout" Finch, of Maycomb, Alabama, is interwoven with explorations of the issues of prejudice, innocence, compassion, and hypocrisy. This entry in Bloom's How to Write about Literature gives valuable guidance on writing about Harper Lee and her works. An introduction from Yale Professor Harold Bloom, bibliographies, and an index round out this helpful title.