The fictional town in "To Kill a Mockingbird" was based on Monroeville, Ala., but the 1962 movie was not filmed in Monroeville.

To Kill a Mockingbird was filmed on a Universal Studios backlot in Hollywood, not in the actual town of Monroeville, Alabama. Art Director Henry Bumstead won an Academy Award for recreating the ...

After local author Nelle Harper Lee won the Pulitzer Prize for her 1960 novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” people became curious about the town that inspired the fictional city of Maycomb in the book.

Maycomb, Ala., itself comes alive, as a town abundantly inhabited by individual human beings, each one possessed of his or her own convincing nature and personality. And each one contributes to ...

To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee. Although it was written in 1960 it is set in the mid-1930s in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama. It is narrated by Scout Finch, a six-year-old ...