<human>:  What is the historical context of the novel To Kill A Mockingbird?
<bot>: To Kill a Mockingbird is a Pulitzer-Prize winning novel by Harper Lee, first published in 1960. Set in the fictional small town of Maycomb, Alabama, in the 1930s, the novel explores a range of issues related to racism and social injustice. Through the protagonist, Scout Finch, readers explore issues of gender, class, racial prejudice, and justice in the segregated South during the Great Depression. The novel also comments on the familial and social expectations of the time, and the quiet but pervasive power of racism in America.