Literary Capital Sculpture Trail

Downtown Business Map

Map of Monroe County

City of Monroeville Map

Driving Tour I

Driving Tour II

Driving Tour III

Driving Tour IV

Restaurant & Shopping Guide

smART Moves Mural Trail

Coming Soon

Walk Monroeville Self Guided Tour

Civil Rights Trail

A City’s Past Immortalized

While To Kill a Mockingbird is a fictional story, the characters and events were inspired by the harsh reality of racism and injustice that plagued the segregated South. Author Harper Lee was born and raised in Monroeville, now known as the “Literary Capital of Alabama,” and the town served as the inspiration for her 1961 Pulitzer Prize winning novel. Lee’s father, Amasa Coleman Lee, was a state legislator and county lawyer and defended two black men accused of murdering a white storekeeper. To Kill a Mockingbird is loosely based on Harper Lee’s adolescent perspective of this incident as well as the hatred and prejudice that perpetually existed within her community and throughout the southeastern United States.