Literature: Text and Contexts: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Context of production

Nelle Harper Lee was born in 1926 in the town of Monroeville (Alabama, United States), her schoolmate and neighbour was Truman Capote (other important writer), she studied in the Huntingdon College and later she studied laws in the University of Alabama, but she didn’t like it, so she went to New York City to be a writer, but she had to work as ticket agent of an airline, there she receive a gift with money and a message: "You have one year, off from your job to write whatever you please. Merry Christmas".
To Kill a mockingbird was written in 1960. This period was really important for the African-American Civil Rights Movement, reflected in the story and greatly influenced by segregation: Jim Crow Laws, Scottsboro trials, prejudice, among others. Other important influence was the friendship of Lee with Truman Capote and other artist of the period. 

The setting is in Alabama during the 1930s, period influenced by the economic depression, unemployment and the dust bowl.The plot and characters are loosely based on the author's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as on an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old.(en.wikipedia.org)

Context Of Reception: Chile, 2012, by 10th graders.