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To Kill a Mockingbird: 50 years on

To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee, while visting her home town
Harper Lee, visting her home town of Monroeville in 1961
Photograph: Donald Uhrbrock/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images
To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee, while visting her home town
Harper Lee peering into a house that may have provided the inspiration for "the Radley place" in To Kill A Mockingbird
Photograph: Donald Uhrbrock/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image
To Kill a Mockingbird: arper Lee, in local courthouse Monroeville, Alabama
Lee in the balcony of Monroeville's local courthouse, in 1961
Photograph: Donald Uhrbrock/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image
To Kill a Mockingbird: Alan Pakula and author Harper Lee watching filming of To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee and producer Alan Pakula watching the filming of a scene for the movie of To Kill a Mockingbird in 1962
Photograph: AP Photo
To Kill a Mockingbird: Gregory Peck and Harper Lee on Set of <To Kill a Mockingbird>
Gregory Peck and Lee on the set of To Kill A Mockingbird
Photograph: Corbis
To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee holding tire swing with child actress, Mary Badham
Lee holding a tyre swing with Mary Badham, who played the role of Scout Finch (based on Lee's own childhood) in the film of To Kill a Mockingbird
Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex Features
To Kill a Mockingbird: Gregory Peck in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'
Gregory Peck as attorney Atticus Finch in a scene from the 1962 movie To Kill a Mockingbird
Photograph: AP
To Kill a Mockingbird: Robert Duvall & Mary Badham in To Kill a Mockingbird
Robert Duvall as Boo Radley and Mary Badham as Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird
Photograph: Allstar
To Kill a Mockingbird: To Kill a Mockingbird film
Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch and Brock Peters as Tom Roberts in the crucial courtroom scene in To Kill a Mockingbird
Photograph: AFP
To Kill a Mockingbird: Bush Awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to Harper Lee
George W Bush takes Harper Lee by the arm before presenting her with the 2007 Presidential Medal of Freedom
Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
To Kill a Mockingbird: old Monroeville County Courthouse, Alabama
The old Monroeville county courthouse
Photograph: Tami Chappell/Reuters/Corbis
To Kill a Mockingbird: Old Monroeville County Courthouse pictured in Monroeville, Alabama
View from outside the Monroeville county courthouse. Thousands of tourists come each spring to watch a stage adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird performed by local actors here
Photograph: TAMI CHAPPELL/ TAMI CHAPPELL/Reuters/Corbis
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