Rediscovering the Impact of To Kill a Mockingbird: A Personal Reflection

Last night I finished my first reread of Harper Lee’s masterpiece To Kill a Mockingbird in the last 30 or so years. I read it several times back in high school in the early 1980s, but as my personal library grew, I stopped rereading the first novels I owned.

I teared up several times during this rereading of Mockingbird. It wasn’t so much the excellent story. Like I said, I’ve read it many times and there were no surprises. But this book was so influential on me in my early teens. Yes, it tau...