"Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."
Harper Lee was an American novelist best known for To Kill a Mockingbird, a landmark novel about racial injustice in the U.S. South. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961 and became a modern classic. She later published Go Set a Watchman, an earlier draft-related work.