To kill a mockingbird- Context of production

To kill a mockingbird is a novel written by Harper Lee and published in 1960. The context of production of the book s influenced by some events that happened in the life of the author. The main incident is the economic depression of the 30's. Nelle Harper E. Lee (born April 28, 1926) is an American author known for her 1960 Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which deals with the issues of racism that were observed by the author as a child in her home town of Monroeville, Alabama. 






The author was part of a literary movement called the Beat generation. The Beat Generation was a group of American post-World War II writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, as well as the cultural phenomena that they both documented and inspired. Central elements of "Beat" culture included experimentation with drugs, alternative forms of sexuality, an interest in Eastern religion, a rejection of materialism, and the idealizing of exuberant, unexpurgated means of expression and being.
In that times, racism was present in many places and including political issues, like the Jim Craw Laws, or other benefits like buses for white people and for coloured people. This kind of events influenced in the authors life and lately, her writing.