To Kill A Classic: Does Harper Lee really want her 60-year-old “sequel” published?
Harper Lee’s entire reputation is based on one novel, the American classic To Kill A Mockingbird. She never put out another novel…and then her publisher announces that a “sequel” to Mockingbird will be released this summer.
For decades she refused to have that novel published, and her wish was honored and enforced by her lawyer Alice Lee, who was also her sister.
Three months ago Alice Lee died. Then the publisher announced that the novel Go Set A Watchman would hit stores.
Of course To Kill A Mockingbird fans are thrilled, but is this what Harper Lee really wants? She has always been reclusive. She was cheated of the proceeds of Mockingbird. She is reportedly senile.
More: An earlier story about the disputed Mockingbird royalties in Vanity Fair.
Another angle: Don’t do it, Harper Lee, by Jessa Crispin of Bookslut
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