This Pulitzer prize-winning novel, which relates the story of the trial of a black man accused of the rape of a white woman. Seen through the eyes of the defending lawyer's children the story depicts racial intolerance in the American South in the 1930s.This Pulitzer prize-winning novel, which relates the story of the trial of a black man accused of the rape of a white woman. Seen through the eyes of the defending lawyer's children the story depicts racial intolerance in the American South in the 1930s.