To Kill a Mockingbird: 50 years on

Harper Lee, visting her home town of Monroeville in 1961 Photograph: Donald Uhrbrock/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images Photograph: Donald Uhrbrock/guardian.co.uk Harper Lee peering into a house that may have provided the inspiration for "the Radley place" in To Kill A Mockingbird Photograph: Donald Uhrbrock/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image Photograph: Donald Uhrbrock/guardian.co.uk Lee in the balcony of Monroeville's local courthouse, in 1961 Photograph: Donald Uhrbrock/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image Photograph: Donald Uhrbrock/guardian.co.uk Harper Lee and producer Alan Pakula watching the filming of a scene for the movie of To Kill a Mockingbird in 1962 Photograph: AP Photo Photograph: guardian.co.uk " width="580" height="460" class="gu-image" /> Gregory Peck and Lee on the set of To Kill A Mockingbird Photograph: Corbis Photograph: guardian.co.uk Lee holding a tyre swing with Mary Badham, who played the role of Scout Finch (based on Lee's own childhood) in the film of To Kill a Mockingbird Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex Features Photograph: Everett Collection/guardian.co.uk Gregory Peck as attorney Atticus Finch in a scene from the 1962 movie To Kill a Mockingbird Photograph: AP Photograph: guardian.co.uk Robert Duvall as Boo Radley and Mary Badham as Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird Photograph: Allstar Photograph: guardian.co.uk Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch and Brock Peters as Tom Roberts in the crucial courtroom scene in To Kill a Mockingbird Photograph: AFP Photograph: guardian.co.uk George W Bush takes Harper Lee by the arm before presenting her with the 2007 Presidential Medal of Freedom Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/guardian.co.uk The old Monroeville county courthouse Photograph: Tami Chappell/Reuters/Corbis Photograph: Tami Chappell/guardian.co.uk View from outside the Monroeville county courthouse. Thousands of tourists come each spring to watch a stage adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird performed by local actors here Photograph: TAMI CHAPPELL/ TAMI CHAPPELL/Reuters/Corbis Photograph: TAMI CHAPPELL/guardian.co.uk