![]() ![]() "When Harper Lee sat down to write To Kill a Mockingbird, she wasn’t seeking awards or fame. She was a country girl who just wanted to tell an honest story about life as she saw it," their statement said. ![]() It also received nominations for best picture, cinematography, directing, music and best actress in a supporting role. The film won best writing, art direction and actor for Peck at the 1963 Oscars. The book was also quickly turned into an Academy Award-winning movie starring Gregory Peck. The book was assigned widely in American schools and quickly became a literary and popular favorite - worldwide sales topped 40 million. Her novel gives us a particular point of view of an independent southern woman's voice and we don't have anything quite like that from other southern women writers," Eichelberger said. "A lot of people, particularly in Harper Lee's lifetime, didn't really understand the South and looked down upon it, and thought of it as very backward. And Eichelberger said the depiction of the southern women, and Scout's perspective specifically, makes the story unique. Julia Eichelberger, Professor of Southern Literature at College of Charleston, told ABC News today that the depiction of the South helped make the story an instant hit. ![]()
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