Searching a city for traces of harper lee's inspiration

Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird is always nearby in the southwest Alabama town of Monroeville.

The quiet city is the birthplace and current home of the 89-year-old author, and it inspired the fictional town of Maycomb in her Pulitzer Prize-winning book about race and injustice in the Deep South of the 1930s.

And with the Mockingbird sequel Go Set a Watchman just published, Monroeville has sites aplenty that draw fans searching for remnants of that "tired old town" where attorney Atticus Finch defended a wrongly accused Tom Robinson while Finch's children Jem and Scout watched from the courtroom balcony.