To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird is a Pulitzer Prize winning 1960 novel by Harper Lee, set in the South and combining a coming of age tale with societal racism influencing a courtroom trial. The title refers to a saying by the narrator's father, Atticus Finch, admonishing his children when hunting to never kill a mockingbird, a creature which only sings and gives pleasure to humans.
The novel was adapted to film in 1962, starring Gregory Peck and winning several Academy Awards, and multiple stage versions exist (including a 2018 Broadway production starring Jeff Daniels). 
==References== 
* In Sesame Street Episode 1117, Big Bird browses in the library and comes across To Kill a Mockingbird, but takes the title literally: "Aw, I don't like stories like that." 
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