To Kill a Mockingbird: A Selective List of Library Resources

Biography and Criticism

Harper Lee's To kill a mockingbird (Blooms’s guides series) / edited with an introduction by Harold Bloom. Philadelphia : Chelsea House, c2004.

Harper Lee's To kill a mockingbird (Blooms’ modern critical interpretations series) / Harold Bloom, editor. New York : Chelsea House, 2007.

Johnson, Claudia D. To kill a mockingbird : threatening boundaries . New York : Twayne Publishers, c1994.

Johnson, Claudia D. Understanding To kill a mockingbird : a student casebook to issues, sources, and historic documents . Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994.

On Harper Lee : essays and reflections / edited by Alice Hall Petry ; with a foreword by William T. Going.

Readings on To kill a mockingbird / Terry O'Neill, book editor. San Diego, Calif. : Greenhaven Press, 2000.

Shields, Charles J. Mockingbird : a portrait of Harper Lee . New York : Henry Holt, 2006.

Stone, Dan. An introduction to To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee [sound recording] / written and produced by Dan Stone at the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Thirties: Historical and Social Context Agee, James. Let us now praise famous men . Boston : Houghton Mifflin company, 2001, c1960.

Hanes, Sharon M. Great Depression and New Deal . Detroit : UXL, 2003.

Hard times, the 30s / by the editors of Time-Life Books. Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Books, 1998.

McElvaine, Robert S. The Great Depression: America 1929-1941 .

Such as us : Southern voices of the thirties / edited by Tom E. Terrill, Jerrold Hirsch. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1978.

Watkins, T. H. The hungry years : a narrative history of the Great Depression in America. New York : Henry Holt & Co., 2000.

The Thirties: Arts, Entertainment, and Lifestyle Art deco : style icons. New York : Todtri, 2001.

Art deco 1910-1939 / edited by Charlotte Benton, Tim Benton and Ghislaine Wood. Publisher Boston ; New York : Bulfinch Press, 2003.

Bayer, Patricia. Art deco architecture : design, decoration, and detail from the twenties and thirties . New York : H. N. Abrams, 1992.

Everyday fashions of the thirties as pictured in Sears catalogs / edited by Stella Blum. New York : Dover Publications, 1986.

Hall, Carolyn. The thirties in Vogue . New York : Harmony Books, 1985

Lucie-Smith, Edward. Art of the 1930s : the age of anxiety. New York : Rizzoli, 1985.



Databases

Databases are excellent sources of information on To Kill a Mockingbird and for social and historical information on the thirties. And they are available 24/7 from your home or school. You will need a Jefferson County library card to access the databases from outside the library.

For criticisms and information on Harper Lee, the Literary Reference Center and the Literature Resource Center would be good resources.

For information on the 1930s and the Great Depression, try African-American History and Culture, the History Reference Center , or Annals of American History Online .

Websites

Here are the best To Kill a Mockingbird websites. They are full of hyperlinks that provide a rich and varied look at To Kill a Mockingbird from literary and social contexts.

http://www.aresearchguide.com/mock.html http://www.learner.org/channel/workshops/isonovel/Pages/Mockingbirdpage.html http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/98/mock/intro.html http://www.notesinthemargin.org/mockingbird.html