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  • “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “Go Set a Watchman” Author Harper Lee Dies at Alabama Assisted Living Facility at 89

    To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman author Harper Lee has died. The 89-year-old passed away on Friday at the assisted living facility in Alabama where she lived.

    According to a report from the Hollywood Reporter, Lee’s publisher said she “died peacefully.”

    Harper Lee’s prizewinning novel To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960. Set in the 1930’s, character Atticus Finch–a lawyer–defended an African-American man named Tom Robinson, who was accused of rape.

    Lee wrote Go Set a Watchman prior to writing To Kill a Mockingbird, but it was only published last year. The New York Times shocked readers when it reviewed the book, writing that Atticus Finch was a racist.

    Harper Lee didn’t live to see To Kill a Mockingbird open on Broadway. Scheduled to be revived in time for the 2017-18 season, its stage adaptation was written by Social Network and West Wing writer Aaron Sorkin.

    Sorkin issued a statement Friday after learning Lee had passed away.

    “Like millions of others, I was saddened to learn this morning of the passing of Harper Lee, one of America’s most beloved authors. I’m honored to have the opportunity to adapt her seminal novel for the stage,” he said.

    Were you a fan of To Kill a Mockingbird and/or Go Set a Watchman? If so, you are no doubt mourning the passing of Harper Lee.

  • ‘Go Set A Watchman’ Author Harper Lee: Has She Written A Third Novel?

    Go Set A Watchman and To Kill A Mockingbird author Harper Lee might have a third novel waiting in the wings. At least that’s what an attorney for the 89-year-old shared last week.

    Attorney Tonja Carter discovered Go Set A Watchman in a safe deposit box about a year ago. She hinted there may be another manuscript as well after returning to the safe deposit box just last week to see if there were any “other things hiding in plain sight.”

    “What we found was extraordinary and surprised even me,” Carter writes in a piece for the Wall Street Journal. “Remember the partially opened mailer from Lippincott that the publisher had sent to Alice Lee in 1961? Well, my colleague very carefully removed its contents, which were about 300 pages of typed manuscript. It was clear to us that what was in the package had not been removed since it was first mailed.”

    Carter reports finding both Go Set A Watchman and To Kill A Mockingbird sitting “underneath a stack of a significant number of pages of another typed text.”

    “Was it an earlier draft of Watchman, or of Mockingbird, or even, as early correspondence indicates it might be, a third book bridging the two? I don’t know,” she writes.

    Have you read To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee? What’s your take on Atticus Finch?

    Go Set A Watchman goes on sale Tuesday. It is expected to be an instant best-seller.