Includes bibliographical references (p. 131) and index Regarded as a masterpiece of American literature, this timeless story of growing up in the South became an instant bestseller first published in 1960 and later was made into a classic film Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Children play; adults betray / Harding LeMay -- Three at the outset / Granville Hicks -- Discovering theme and structure in the novel / Edgar H. Schuster -- Keen scalpel on racial ills / Edwin Bruell -- A censorship attempt in Hanover, Virginia, 1966 / ed. by Claudia Durst Johnson -- The romantic regionalism of Harper Lee / Fred Erisman -- To kill a mockingbird : Harper Lee's tragic vision / R.A. Dave -- Store and mockingbird : two Pulitzer novels about Alabama / William T. Going -- The secret courts of men's hearts : code and law in Harper Lee's To kill a mockingbird / Claudia Durst Johnson -- Literary analysis : unifying elements of To kill a mockingbird / Claudia Durst Johnson -- Hollywood and race : To kill a mockingbird / Colin Nicholson -- Atticus Finch and the mad dog : Harper Lee's To kill a mockingbird / Carolyn Jones -- The female voice in To kill a mockingbird : narrative strategies in film and the novel / Dean Shackelford