Books and Authors question: With To Kill a Mockingbird as the reference work, which book–author pair is correctly matched?

The source-backed, question-specific record explains: The work’s first publication is conventionally dated to 1960, and its original language is English. These three details—title, author, and language—form the decisive bibliographical combination required here. Harper Lee, a major American literary figure, is also associated with Go Set a Watchman; that companion title helps confirm the authorship independently rather than through guesswork. The distractor set (The Catcher in the Rye — Khaled Hosseini; The Kite Runner — Aravind Adiga; The White Tiger — J. Salinger) must therefore be tested as complete statements: one true fragment cannot make an entire option correct. A common examination trap is to confuse an author’s nationality with the language of composition, or a translation date with first publication. Another is to treat a well-known adaptation or later edition as the original work. Revision takeaway: remember the compact chain “To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee — English — 1960,” and connect it with Go Set a Watchman for stronger recall. This evidence establishes the bibliographic relationship required in this Books and Authors item. A correct solution must preserve the exact title, author, publication context, language, award or comparison requested by the stem. Similar periods, genres or national traditions do not make two book–author pairs interchangeable. Option A gives To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee and satisfies the wording of the question. The remaining choices—The Catcher in the Rye — Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner — Aravind Adiga and The White Tiger — J. Salinger—do not satisfy the complete requirement.