who wrote to kill a mockingbird

The novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" was written by American author Harper Lee. It was published in 1960 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961. Harper Lee's real name was Nelle Harper Lee, and the novel became a classic of modern American literature, widely recognized for addressing themes of racial injustice and moral integrity through the eyes of a child in the Deep South during the 1930s.