I found one too!
Ya’ think they might just be trying to sell a book??
Atticus couldn’t help it. It was in his DNA. Just ask Barry.
May have written? Did she or didn’t she? If the author herself is not sure, then she probably did not write it.
Maybe yes, if she now has a disability that affects the memory, such as Alzheimers. Even in that case, there should be plenty of drafts around that led up to this ‘surprise’ book.
Her literary agent’s son and grandson’s will keep finding “lost” manuscripts!
I read the book in high school back in the days when we read real books, not ebooks. Honestly, I was into Arthur C. Clarke, Asimov and Heinlein so I was not too impressed with Mockingbird. As I recall it was OK, but not one of my favorites by any stretch. As I recall it seemed a little preachy and stilted.
Maybe I am just too much like Atticus Finch and not so much like Scout.
I have read hundreds, nay, thousands of books since those dark days of the 50s-60s and I can honestly say that Mockingbird doesn’t crack my top 10, probably not even my top 50.
So in summation, who cares if there are two additional unknown, mediocre books?
This is fun.
To Kill A Mockingbird is a real touchstone for the Liberals.
Watch what happens when they get over the initial shock.
“This book is no good. It doesn’t support our ideals!”
Harper Lee can’t write another book because Truman Capote is still dead.
Liberals are upset that the guy turns out to be a racist in the novel. I wonder what the 3rd novel will make him be?
When do we get the Salinger manuscripts? I thought they were to start releasing them this year?
So in 2011 you have Nelle Lee's literary agent and a appraiser for Sotheby’s come to Alabama to go through Miss. Lee's safety deposit box to catalog it and look for the original copy of “to Kill A Mockingbird”.
I am supposed to believe that these people, along with Ms. Carter, went through this box and did not properly inspect and catalog the full contents of it. In addition Ms. Carter left the room for an extended time and did not properly supervise the examination of this box. On the surface I find a great degree of total incompetence.
So spring forward three years later and all of sudden Nelle Lee says something about having written a earlier novel, “Go Set A Watchman”, that no one has ever heard of.
Then said lawyer goes back to look at the contents of Safe Deposit Box and miracles or miracles not only does she find the original typed manuscript of “To Kill A Mockingbird”, she finds the unpublished “Go Set a Watchman”.
How is it you have these experts there three years earlier and none of them bothered to examine everything in detail in that box or catalog it properly. Are we supposed to believe they are all that incompetent.
I smell a lot of controversy here and sadly Ms. Lee is not in a position to be of much help. Frankly I would say it has shades of the Clifford Irving affair back in the 1970’s with his Howard Hughes book hoax.
The truth on this will surface and it will either be proven this book is legitimate or a elaborate hoax.