UPDATED: Read an extract from “Go Set a Watchman” here and pre-order your copy now.
After 50 years, the 88-year-old, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee is publishing a second novel…
Go Set a Watchman, which will feature Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird as an adult woman, will be published on July 14, 2016.
The title is apparently from Isaiah 21:6: “For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.”
Young actress Mary Badham as Scout with Gregory Peck
in the To Kill A Mockingbird movie
According to Wikipedia:
The novel follows an adult Scout Finch who travels from New York to Maycomb, Alabama, to visit her father, Atticus Finch, twenty years after the events of To Kill a Mockingbird.
According to the publisher, Scout “is forced to grapple with issues both personal and political as she tries to understand her father’s attitude toward society, and her own feelings about the place where she was born and spent her childhood.”
Go Set a Watchman includes many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird.
Though the book has been characterized in media reports as a sequel to Lee’s best-selling novel, Go Set a Watchman was written in the mid-1950s, before she wrote To Kill a Mockingbird, which was published in 1960.
It was set aside when her editor suggested that she write another novel from the young Scout Finch’s perspective.
The manuscript was then lost for many years, until being rediscovered by her lawyer in the fall of 2014.
It will be published as originally written, with no revisions.
Author Truman Capote signing a copy of “In Cold Blood” to Harper Lee,
who assisted him with the research for his famous book
Quick background:
- Nelle Harper Lee aka Harper Lee was born April 28, 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama.
- She was a close friend of the writer Truman Capote, and assisted him on research for his book, In Cold Blood.
- She attended Huntingdon College and studied law at the University of Alabama.
- She has been awarded many accolades including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Pulitzer Prize.
- To Kill A Mockingbird is considered one of the greatest novels of all time. It was published in 1960.
Gregory Peck and writer Harper Lee discussing “To Kill a Mockingbird”
Order the new book here and re-read the original novel, To Kill a Mockingbird via hardcopy or Kindle, or watch the acclaimed 1962 movie starring Gregory Peck.
Natasha xx
