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The single biggest literary event of 2015 has been the discovery and publication of a sequel to of the most loved books of all time Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird. Go Set A Watchman is set 20 years after the events in the first book; but the book was actually written first. Her editor suggested the childhood scenes in Go Set A Watchman were powerful enough to make a book on their own, and thus was born a classic, with sales of Mockingbird in the millions. In an era crowded with shameless self promoters, author Harper Lee was infamous for her quiet, reclusive ways.
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While the subject of much speculation, It was always assumed that Harper Lee had only ever written one book.
In fact To Kill A Mockingbird was her second book.
TIME breathlessly declared that:
“Today, to the delight and total consternation of the literary world, Harper Collins announced that it will publish a previously unknown novel by Harper Lee, the author of the classic To Kill a Mockingbird. The new novel is called Go Set a Watchman, and it deals with the adult life of “Scout” Finch, whom we met Mockingbird as a six-year-old.
“When Go Set a Watchman appears in July it will—in subtle but very real ways—realign the literary universe. Among the many things that made Mockingbird special was its singularity: after its release in 1960 Lee never published another book.
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“She wrote Go Set a Watchman in the mid-1950s, before To Kill a Mockingbird. Watchman is about Scout going back to her hometown of Maycomb, Alabama to visit her father, Atticus. At the time the editor she showed it to was more interested in Scout’s memories of her childhood, and suggested Lee write an entire novel just about that.”
The manuscript of Go Set a Watchman was rediscovered by a friend of Lee’s and will be published in July, unchanged. Readers can order copies in advance of its publication. There is an initial print run of two million copies. “After much thought and hesitation I shared it with a handful of people I trust and was pleased to hear that they considered it worthy of publication,” Lee said. “I am humbled and amazed that this will now be published after all these years.””
Lee is now 88 years old.
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