50 Years of To Kill A Mockingbird. Scout, Dill, Atticus and Boo – those names can only mean one thing. It's over 50 years since Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, the ultimate literary one-hit wonder, was published by J. B. Lippincott & Co. So much has been written about this novel that it is hard to provide facts that further illustrate Lee and her famous story of childhood in the American South. A bright girl from Monroeville, Alabama, works as an airline reservations clerk in New York and then quits to finish her novel, which becomes an immediate bestseller, wins the Pulitzer Prize, is adapted into a wonderful movie starring Gregory Peck, is translated into more than 40 languages and sells over 30 million copies.
The character of Dill was famously inspired by Lee's childhood friend, Truman Capote. Harper Lee is now an octogenarian. Great Stories, People, Books & Events in Literary History. BookRix. Bibliosurf.com. Authonomy Home Page. About a working library.