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Even though //To Kill a Mockingbird// was published in 1960, the fact that you are currently reading the novel in your English class suggests that Lee's work has had a profound effect on American culture and society. Click on the links below to learn more about why //To Kill a Mockingbird// still remains a popular American classic almost fifty years later.

 **Books** Coady, Roxanne J. __The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them.__ New York, N.Y.: Gotham Books, 2006.

Johnson, Claudia D. __To Kill a Mockingbird: Threatening Boundaries.__ New York: Twayne Publishers, 1994.

The Big Read: NEA Radio Show about //To Kill a Mockingbird//
 * Audio[[image:http://classes.tametheweb.com/bethrs/files/2009/04/mockingbird.jpg width="258" height="388" align="right"]]**

April 13, 2009, //The Telegraph: "To Kill a Mockingbird beats Bible in book poll"//
 * Periodicals**

August 9, 2009, //The New Yorker//: "The Courtside Ring: Atticus Finch and the limits of Southern liberalism."

January 2006, //National Geographic//: "34,640 To Catch a Mockingbird"

January 16, 1966, //The New York Times//: "Long Lives the Mockingbird"

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