The discovery was very sudden: Even Van Dusen hadn't heard about the discovered manuscript until just before it was announced. " Lee worked extensively with Hohoff to rewrite the book, and the result was To Kill a Mockingbird.īut there's a lot of skepticism surrounding this account. But as Hugh Van Dusen, who's now Lee's editor at HarperCollins, said in an interview in February, Hohoff "said to her, This isn’t what you want to write you want to write something about Scout when she was a girl. The way the publisher tells it, Hohoff liked Lee's writing. That manuscript was claimed to be Go Set a Watchman - the novel Lee initially submitted to editor Tay Hohoff, which ultimately became To Kill a Mockingbird. In February 2015, a statement issued by Lee's publisher - purportedly on her behalf - announced that a manuscript had been "discovered" attached to another draft of Mockingbird. The book was an instant success when it was published in 1960 it was quickly made into an iconic 1962 movie starring Gregory Peck, and Lee, feeling the pressure to live up to her first book, never published another novel again. Until July 2015, Harper Lee had published only one novel: To Kill a Mockingbird. Go Set a Watchman is either the sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird, a rough draft of it, or something in between - it depends on whom you ask. What is Go Set a Watchman, and why is it coming out now? So does America now need to exile To Kill a Mockingbird from its summer reading assignments? Or should readers continue to read Mockingbird as if Watchman had never existed? How you think about this, it turns out, depends on who you think is responsible for creating a novel's meaning - and how comfortable you are with America's complicated racial legacy. These questions have only become more urgent since the book's release on July 14, due to its "reveal" that Atticus Finch, the anti-racist hero of To Kill a Mockingbird, is a virulent racist in Watchman. There are questions about whether Lee actually wanted it to be published, or whether she even wrote it at all - and if so, when. It's also the only novel that its author, Harper Lee, had ever published - until a sudden announcement in February 2015 heralded the publication of Go Set a Watchman, a new Lee work featuring the same characters as To Kill a Mockingbird.Ī lot of people are suspicious about the discovery of the new manuscript. It's an inspiring story about standing up to injustice even if doing so is difficult and unpopular an accessible coming-of-age tale and a convenient way to teach high school English students about the Jim Crow South. To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the best-known books in America.
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