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Thank you We sneak in Go set a watchman Allah

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shmoop When go set a watchman was published in two

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thousand fifteen People all over the world asked the same

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question Our relieves still alive Their confusion was understandable if

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you texted your friend and she didn't respond for sixty

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five years Well you might think she was dead too

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though just to clear up any confusion The killa mockingbird

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was published in nineteen Sixty go Set a watchman was

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published in two thousand fifteen And harper lee Well she

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was alive and kicking the entire time What she wasn't

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doing however was writing because go set a watchman Well

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it's Not exactly a new book So where the heck

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did this book come from Well let's turn back time

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a little bit In the mid nineteen fifties harper lee

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wrote the novel Go set a watchman Yep You heard

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that right The mid fifties he submitted her manuscript to

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the publishing house J b lippincott company But publishing house

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well they weren't exactly impressed by her manuscript As a

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matter of fact only one person working there saw any

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spark of potential in harper lee teresa von whole hoff

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Tory or as her friends felder hey well tell ian

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lee work together editing a new manuscript which would eventually

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become to kill a mockingbird well to kill a mockingbird

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was technically harper lee second book but it was her

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first one published It was released in nineteen sixty won

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the pulitzer prize in nineteen sixty one was adapted into

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an oscar winning film starring gregory pack in nineteen sixty

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two and wiggled its way every american classroom from the

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rest of the century And well for reverend After all

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of that success it would only be natural for harper

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lee to start turning out book after book right on

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that quite lead disappeared from public view almost entirely way

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guess life sometimes does imitate art Well that's not to

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say she never wrote again She was allegedly working on

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a second book titled the long goodbye but she said

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good bye to that a long long time ago These

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last public appearance was in two thousand seven when she

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was awarded a presidential medal of freedom Everyone wanted to

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know two things Why didn't she ever write again And

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who cut that woman's hair Unfortunately there are some things

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We'll never know Lee who still lived in our hometown

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of monroeville alabama refused to talk to the press Even

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oprah She hid behind her attorney who happen to be

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her sister alice When alice died in november two thousand

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fourteen at age one hundred three please Fran tonia carter

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took over his lease attorney well one day while doing

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official lawyerly business a rummaging through lead stuff carter found

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the manuscript for go set a watchman a manuscript no

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one else knew existed well Carter submitted the manuscript to

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harpercollins publishers who published the book with only a light

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copy at it The book was promoted as a sequel

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to to kill a mockingbird is it follows many of

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the same characters two decades later But remember go set

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a watchman was written before mockingbird all a bit of

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wiggly wobbly timey whiny mess But the whole ordeal raised

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concerns and harper lee rumored to be mostly deaf and

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blind in eighty eight agreed to publish the book only

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answer seems to be yes An investigation did conclude she

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endorsed the book's publication and considering that not even oprah

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can talkto lead we got will be getting any clarification

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On the matter So there it is The sixty year

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journey of go set a watchman one big questions still

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remain What else was found in harbor lee's archives Will

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we hear from harper lee again And like seriously who

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cut her hair Shmoop amongst yourselves Let us know what 00:03:38.54 --> [endTime] you think

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