Go Set a Watchman is a novel by American author Harper Lee. Publicized upon its 2015 release as a sequel to Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman is, in actuality, a first draft of the previous work. The publication of Go Set a Watchman has been highly controversial and the work itself has divided critics and readers alike.
The novel begins with twenty-something Jean Louise Finch, known from childhood as Scout, returning from New York to visit to her home in Maycomb, Alabama. During Jean Louise's visit, she discovers that her father Atticus and her friend Henry are involved in a group that seems to promote White Supremacy. Jean Louise is heartbroken but comes to understand that people have the right to stand up for what they believe, even if it's not what she wants to believe herself.
Harper Lee (born 1926) is considered by many to be a literary icon. Her controversial novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1961.Nelle Harper Lee was born April 28, 1926, in Monroevill...
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As a child, Harper Lee was "a rough 'n' tough tomboy.... She had short, cropped hair, wore coveralls, went barefoot, and could talk mean like a boy," according to Marianne M. Moates in A Bridge of Chi...
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Biography EssayHarper Lee's reputation as an author rests on her only novel, To Kill a Mockingbird (1960). An enormous popular success, the book was selected for distribution by the Literary Guild an...
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Harper Lee's reputation as an author rests on her only novel, To Kill a Mockingbird (1960). An enormous popular success, the book was selected for distribution by the Literary Guild and the Book-of-th...
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Harper Lee
Harper Lee
(Nelle) Harper Lee