I was a first-time writer, so I did as I was told.” “My editor, who was taken by the flashbacks to Scout’s childhood, persuaded me to write a novel from the point of view of the young Scout. “It features the character known as Scout as an adult woman and I thought it a pretty decent effort,” Lee said in the statement. Lee said in a statement attributed to her by her publisher that Go Set a Watchman was completed in the mid-1950s, but she believed the original manuscript had been lost. The deal to publish Go Set a Watchman was negotiated between the US publisher HarperCollins and Harper Lee’s local attorney, Tonja Carter.Ĭarter, whose close relationship with Lee has been the source of some local controversy, is said to have discovered the original manuscript just three months ago.
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