To Kill a Mockingbird is an unpublished short story.
American literature is the literature written or produced in the area of the United States and its preceding colonies . To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960 . As a Southern Gothic novel and a Bildungsroman , the primary themes of To Kill a Mockingbird involve racial injustice and the destruction of innocence . To Kill a Mockingbird was Lee 's only published book until Go Set a Watchman , an earlier draft of To Kill a Mockingbird , was published on July 14 , 2015 .