Posted on 02/03/2015 1:05:31 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
F. Scott Fitzgerald famously claimed, “There are no second acts in American lives,” but Harper Lee is out to prove him wrong.
The beloved author will publish her second novel this summer. “Go Set a Watchman” was written more than 50 years ago — before her Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, “To Kill a Mockingbird” — but it was never published.
In a statement released this morning, the 88-year-old author explained that when she was just starting off, she wrote “Go Set a Watchman” about a woman nicknamed Scout who returns home to Maycomb to visit her father, Atticus. After reading the manuscript, her editor asked her to rewrite the story from the point of view of Scout as a child. “I was a first-time writer,” Lee said, “so I did as I was told.” The result was “To Kill a Mockingbird,” a novel that has sold 40 million copies since it was first published in 1960.
The original story, “Go Set a Watchman,” was forgotten. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I’ve taught the book to eleventh graders for the past ten years. It’s extremely conservative, but progs don’t get it and use it to prop up their ideas.
Over 40 million copies sold? She never had to.
I've admired Lee because she seemed to be one of those rare authors who had one book in her, and knew she'd never top it so she never tried. Now it appears she had two and I'm looking forward to reading it.
She was friends with Capote. It’s been hinted that Capote helped to spread that rumor.
Like many rumors it's been discounted time and again.
To BURY the Recently Killed Mockingbird
She might need the money,I remember she filed a lawsuit about the royalties a while back
It is an exceptionally good novel though.
The Clintons and obama have written several..... millions in royalties yet not many in actual sales.
Too late for Gregory Peck to star in the movie, if they make a movie from the book.
Hell, it's too late for Mary Badham to star in the movie, either. Scout is now 63...
Will it include the instructions this time?
Good
Likely it wills how numbnuts how lib agit prop the original was
Bah. Mockingbird is a liberal fantasy. Aticus Finch is a character with no realism whatsoever. Lefties just love to pretend to be Aticus Finch.
She’s like the American Sniper of the literary world :-)
Did you see the movie Capote, starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman? What did you think of it? I enjoyed the insights into life in NY and how liberals do all their scheming at cocktail parties, as Peggy Noonan has mentioned many times.
She’d know. That’s what turned her into an Obama voter.
It was good. Capote certainly wasn’t very political, thank God.
I really hated the book and the movie
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