To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was immediately successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are loosely based on the author's observations of <answer>her family and neighbors</answer>, as well as on an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old.
Whom did Lee base the characters in To Kill a Mockingbird on?
her family and neighbors