A selective list of literary criticism for the American novelist from Alabama, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, including signed articles by recognized scholars, peer and editor reviewed articles, and web sites that follow MLA guidelines for web pages.
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"To Kill a Mockingbird: Then and Now." Educational materials on To Kill a Mockingbird, both the novel and the film, including discussion questions and information about the historical context. Prince William Network Distance Learning, April, 1997
"A writer's story: The mockingbird mystery." Overview of Harper Lee's life, in the (UK) Independent, 6/4/06 (removed)
"Harper Lee" entry from the Encyclopedia of Alabama
A bibliography of secondary criticism on Harper Lee from the Checklist of Scholarship on Southern Literature
"Harper Lee Still Prizes Privacy Over Publicity." Newspaper article in the Christian Science Monitor, 9/11/97
'To Kill a Mockingbird is still relevant on race." Newspaper article in the Chicago Sun-Times, 8/14/01
"Harper Lee, Gregarious for a Day," newspaper article by Ginia Bellafante, NYTimes, 1/30/06
"Oprah Winfrey persuades Harper Lee to write after years of silence." Newspaper article by Andrew Buncombe in the (UK) Independent, 6/28/06
"Looking for Harper Lee," an essay by Mark Childress on the personal meaning of To Kill a Mockingbird to him. Southern Living, May 1997
Biographical sketch of scholar Wayne Flynt, who was inspired to teach by reading To Kill a Mockingbird
"Hiding Harper Lee," an essay on our curiosity about Harper Lee. In Story South, 2005, by W. A. Bilen
"Why George Landegger Thinks Investing in Alabama Writers Is A Good Idea," on the Harper Lee award for Alabama writers
National Endowment for the Arts Announces The Big Read, in which communities read one of four novels: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury; The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; or To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
National Endowment for the Arts Introduction to To Kill a Mockingbird, from Dana Gioia, includes short essays about the historical context, author Harper Lee, discussion questions, a teacher's guide, and more
Readers nominations for books for the original British version of The Big Read (To Kill a Mockingbird was in sixth place), from the British Broadcasting Company
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