Go Set a Watchman features Mockingbird's Scout as a 26-year-old woman on her way back home to Maycomb, Alabama, from New York City. In February 2015, it was announced that HarperCollins would publish the manuscript on July 14, 2015. Lee's Go Set a Watchman was thought to be lost until it was discovered by her lawyer Tonja Carter in a safe deposit box. The story was essentially a first draft of To Kill a Mockingbird and followed the later lives of the novel’s characters. Lee published her second novel, Go Set a Watchman, in July 2015. Their attorney father, Atticus Finch, tries to help a Black man who has been charged with raping a white woman to get a fair trial and to prevent him from being lynched by angry white people in a small town. The work was more than a coming-of-age story: another part of the novel reflected racial prejudices in the South. In one of the book's major plotlines, Scout and her brother Jem and their friend Dill explore their fascination with a mysterious and somewhat infamous neighborhood character named Boo Radley. The work's central character, a young girl nicknamed Scout, was not unlike Lee in her youth. A classic of American literature, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than 40 languages with more than a million copies sold each year. The following year, the novel won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize and several other literary awards. A condensed version of the story appeared in Reader's Digest magazine. In July 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird was published and picked up by the Book-of-the-Month Club and the Literary Guild. Lee and Capote got a chance to interview the suspects not long after their arraignment in January 1960. Truman, with his flamboyant personality and style, had a hard time initially getting himself into his subjects' good graces.ĭuring their time in Kansas, the Clutters' suspected killers, Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, were caught in Las Vegas and brought back for questioning. Serving as his research assistant, Lee helped with the interviews, eventually winning over some of the locals with her easygoing, unpretentious manner. The two traveled to Kansas to interview townspeople, friends and family of the deceased and the investigators working to solve the crime. Capote was writing about the impact of the murder of four members of the Clutter family on their small Kansas farming community. In 1956, Lee joined forces with Capote to assist him with an article he was writing for The New Yorker. While in New York City in the 1950s, Lee was reunited with her old friend Capote, who was by then one of the literary rising stars of the time.
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