For over 50 eld , To shoot down a Mockingbirdhas stand up as Harper Lee ’s far-famed and solitary contribution to the literary world . It is the only book she ’s ever published , and the sole legacy of a secret author who rarely engross with the media . Now , that is all about to commute with the publication of a 2nd novel by Lee calledGo Set a Watchman.(Though in the time of day since the news broke , people have beenasking a lot of questionsabout it . )
Lee actually wroteGo set up a Watchmanin the mid-1950s , beforeTo Kill a Mockingbird . “[Watchman ] boast the character know as Scout as an adult woman , and I thought it a fairly adequate effort , " the now-88 - yr - oldLee said in a financial statement issue by publisher Harper . " My editor , who was taken by the flashbacks to Scout ’s puerility , persuaded me to compose a novel ( which becameTo defeat a Mockingbird ) from the point of panorama of the young Scout . "
Lee relinquish the Pulitzer Prize - winningTo Kill a Mockingbirdon July 11 , 1960 . What was essentially a prequel to her original attempt went on to become one of the most widely - read and recognized novel in history , selling over 40 million copies worldwide .
Lee reports that her " darling friend and attorney Tonja Carter " come upon the manuscript ofGo Set a Watchmanin a " secure position where it had been affix to an original typescript ofTo Kill a Mockingbird . " After apportion the re - ascertained employment with a few entrust intimate , Lee " was pleased to learn that they think it worthy of publication . "
The ledger is set up roughly contemporaneously with Lee ’s writing , in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement , and inwardness on an grownup watch returning from New York to Alabama to shoot the breeze her founding father , Atticus .
" She is pressure to grapple with issue both personal and political as she tries to sympathise her father ’s mental attitude toward society , and her own feel about the place where she was abide and spend her childhood , " the publisher ’s promulgation say .
Publisher Harper design a first run of 2 million copies , to be unloose July 14 .
