Lee’s lawyer claims she found the To Kill a Mockingbird ‘prequel’ last August, but new report reveals a Sotheby’s books expert unearthed it three years ago
With less than two weeks remaining before the literary sensation of the decade – the publication of Go Set a Watchman, the sister book to Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird – the manner in which the manuscript came to light has become shrouded in yet more mystery, with seemingly conflicting accounts from people directly involved in the 89-year-old author’s affairs.
New details have emerged that call into question the official story of how and when the work was discovered after being stored in a safe-deposit box for many years. According to both Tonja Carter, Lee’s lawyer, and the publisher HarperCollins, Carter stumbled upon the typewritten text when she was rummaging around a batch of old documents last August.
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