

"I am humbled and amazed that this will now be published after all these years." After she Lee was told to write the story from the perspective of a young Scout, she set the first work aside and thought she had lost it. "Go Set a Watchman," submitted to Lee’s publisher in 1957, tells the tale of Scout 20 years after the events in "To Kill a Mockingbird," as she returns to Alabama from New York to visit her father in the 1950s, the publisher said. After much thought and hesitation I shared it with a handful of people I trust and was pleased to hear that they considered it worthy of publication," Lee, 88, said. I hadn't realized it had survived, so was surprised and delighted when my dear friend and lawyer Tonja Carter discovered it. "I was a first-time writer, so I did as I was told.
