To Kill A Mockingbird - America's National Novel - Turns 50

In July 1960 a novel about the collision between childhood innocence and the sometime harshness of life in the American Deep South was published, to little fanfare.

Quickly, however, it became a hit, first domestically and then internationally.

Translated in to over forty languages and still selling at least a million copies each year, To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Nelle Harper Lee, has become to many the singular American National Novel.

(thanks Robert-John)