![]() ![]() ![]() Her father, the great Atticus Finch, is a bigot. The main characters may be the same, but “Watchman” is an entirely different book in both shape and tone from “Mockingbird.” Scout is not an impressionable child in Maycomb, Ala., looking up to her heroic father, but a young woman from Maycomb living in New York. Now, this week’s publication of “Go Set a Watchman” offers a rare glimpse at the before and after of a book widely regarded as a masterpiece. Lee from one draft to the next until the book finally achieved its finished form and was retitled “To Kill a Mockingbird.” ![]() It was, as she described it, “more a series of anecdotes than a fully conceived novel.” During the next couple of years, she led Ms. Hohoff saw it, the manuscript was by no means fit for publication. “he spark of the true writer flashed in every line,” she would later recount in a corporate history of Lippincott.īut as Ms. ![]() Lippincott Company, which eventually bought it.Īt Lippincott, the novel fell into the hands of Therese von Hohoff Torrey - known professionally as Tay Hohoff - a small, wiry veteran editor in her late 50s. In the spring of 1957, a 31-year-old aspiring novelist named Harper Lee - everyone called her Nelle - delivered the manuscript for “Go Set a Watchman” to her agent to send out to publishers, including the now-defunct J. ![]()
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