![]() ![]() She suffered a stroke in 2007 and is wheelchair-bound and partially blind and deaf. Ms Lee is now 88 and lives in a care-home in Alabama. Ms Lee thought the draft had been lost but it was discovered around six months ago by a friend, attached to an original manuscript of To Kill A Mockingbird. ![]() The new book is a separate story that unfolds 20 years later. 'I was a first-time writer, so I did as I was told,' Ms Lee said. It was her editor that suggested Harper rewrite it from the young Scout’s point of view. Santopietro traces the writing of To Kill a. The book, which is set in the 1950s and features a grown-up Scout and an. Tom Santopietros new book, Why To Kill a Mockingbird Matters, takes a 360 degree look at the Mockingbird phenomenon both on page and screen. ![]() The sequel of the book, Go Set A Watchman, featuring ageing Atticus Finch and Scout all grown up, and to be released on July 14, was actually written before TKAMB. So when a copy of Go Set a Watchman was rediscovered, Lees first novel got a second chance when it was published 2015. Although TKAMB has sold 40million copies since it came out in 1960 Lee never published another book. Overwhelmed by the publicity author Lee, then aged 34, famously withdrew to Alabama where she had been born and brought up. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. It was an immediate bestseller, won the Pulitzer prize the following year, and was made into an Oscar winning film a year later. (shelved 362 times as harper-lee) avg rating 4.27 5,697,173 ratings published 1960. To Kill A Mockingbird was published in 1960. ![]()
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