To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee’s classic novel about racism and the American south, has been removed from a junior-high reading list in a Mississippi school district because the language in the book “makes people uncomfortable”. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird: a classic with many lives to live Read moreThe Sun Herald reported that administrators in Biloxi pulled the novel from the 8th-grade curriculum this week. Kenny Holloway, vice-president of the Biloxi School Board, told the newspaper: “There were complaints about it. Lee died last year at the age of 89, after the discovery and controversial publication of a second novel, Go Set a Watchman, that describes events after those depicted in To Kill a Mockingbird. In June this year, the author’s estate approved plans for a graphic novel version of the first book.

Source: The Guardian October 14, 2017 21:33 UTC