September 15, 2026

This 1960 novel by Harper Lee has been credited by an article in the Michigan Law Review with doing more for the public image of American lawyers than any real-life attorney. School districts in the Canadian province of New Brunswick tried to ban it from teaching curricula in the 1990s. Which Pulitzer-winning novel about Depression-era Alabama?

A The Scarlet Letter
B The Jungle Book
C To Kill a Mockingbird
D The Jungle

'To Kill a Mockingbird' won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and remains one of the most-taught American novels. Its Depression-era Alabama courtroom drama and Atticus Finch's defence of Tom Robinson made it a fixture of civil-rights-era literature.

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