An historic literary event: the publication of a newly discovered novel from Harper Lee, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Originally written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman was the novel Lee submitted to her publishers before the creation of To Kill a Mockingbird. Long believed to have been lost, the manuscript was rediscovered in 2014 and published in 2015.
Set roughly twenty years after the events of To Kill a Mockingbird, the novel returns to Maycomb, Alabama, where Jean Louise Finch (“Scout”) comes home to visit her father, Atticus. As she reconnects with the people and places of her childhood, Scout confronts changing views of family, society, identity, and the complicated legacy of the world that shaped her.
First Edition, First Printing (2015). Hardcover with original dust jacket.
About the Author
Harper Lee (1926–2016) was an American novelist best known for To Kill a Mockingbird, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961 and became one of the most influential works of American literature. A native of Monroeville, Alabama, Lee drew heavily from her Southern upbringing and observations of race, justice, and community in her writing. Go Set a Watchman offers readers a rare glimpse into the development of the ideas and characters that would later become part of her iconic first novel.
