To Kill a Mockingbird is an unpublished short story.
Atticus Finch is a fictional character in author Harper Lee 's Pulitzer Prize winning novel of 1960 , To Kill a Mockingbird . To Kill a Mockingbird . One critic explains the novel 's impact by writing , `` In the twentieth century , To Kill a Mockingbird is probably the most widely read book dealing with race in America , and its protagonist , Atticus Finch , the most enduring fictional image of racial heroism . ''