Boys and girls，what kind of books do you like reading？A classic (1) （小说）in the USA stands out by talking about real life problems．To Kill a Mockingbird（《杀死一只知更鸟》）is a Pulitzer Prize winning book written by Harper Lee．
The (2) （众所周知的）American writer died in February 2016 at the age of 89．We can remember Lee，who has affected people's (3) （日常的）life greatly，through her writing，especially in To Kill a Mockingbird． She wrote about many important things like how to think about race（种族）problems in it．
Harper Lee started enjoying reading and writing in high school．To Kill a Mockingbird is her first book，which came out in 1960．She was (4) （惊奇的）to find that the book became popular right away．
Lee's life inspired her book a lot．Her father was much like Atticus Finch，the main character of the book．And it's a story of a young girl growing up in a (5) （南方的）town．She learns about race problems and civil rights（民权）．And a lot of similarities（相似性） (6) （在……之间）the young girl and young Harper Lee have been found out by readers．
In 1991，a (7) （评论）showed that people's life had been (8) （影响）greatly by To Kill a Mockingbird．After this book，Lee tried to stay out of the media and live a quiet life．
Now，though she is (9) （死的），she is still (10) （活着的）in people's hearts all over the world．