TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD A novel by Harper Lee by Ruth Laura Guglielmi, Austria Harper Lee was born in 1926 in a small town in the southern state of Alabama. She was a lawyer’s daughter, but she stated several times that To kill a mockingbird is not an autobio-graphical novel. It was written while Ms. Lee was working in New York, in the late fifties, and published in 1960. It became an instant success with both …showed first 75 words of 1103 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1103 total…people again kill each other because of relig-ious or other intolerance, when the people who had the bad luck of being born some-where else are considered less worthy or automatically labelled as criminals. Why should we kill the mockingbird*, indeed – we might not like it’s song, but another mockingbird certainly finds it beautiful. There is no ideal solution and the world will never be ideal, but a little more tolerance would help a lot.