"Mockingbirds don't do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corn cribs
, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." This is an excerpt from the novel 'To kill a Mockingbird' by __________.
The excerpt is by Nelle Harper Lee, the American novelist very famous for her novel <em>To Kill A Mockingbird</em> written in 1960. This dialog is spoken by Miss Maudie when the narrator tells us what Atticus told was the sin, and Miss Maudie explains why it is a sin to kill a mockingbird.