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Question: What prizes or honors did To Kill a Mockingbird get!?
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1961- Pulitzer Prize

1961- Brotherhood Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews

2001- Lee (author) was inducted into the Alabama Academy of Honor

2001- Chicago mayor Richard M!. Daley initiated a reading program throughout the city's libraries, and chose his favorite book, To Kill a Mockingbird, as the first title of the One City, One Book program!. Lee declared that "there is no greater honor the novel could receive"!.

2004- the novel had been chosen by 25 communities for variations of the citywide reading program, more than any other novel!.

2006- Lee was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Notre Dame!.

2007- Lee was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W!. Bush!.


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