Harper lee, a literary legend on the strength of one novel, her masterpiece: “To Kill a Mockingbird,” is emerging from her reclusive life as her second novel is being published today after a literary hibernation of six decades.
Titled “Go Set a Watchman,” it was written in the mid-fifties during the height of the civil rights movement.
It was actually her first novel, but it was rejected, prompting her to write a second, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” a classic that won the Pulitzer Prize, became a major film, sold more than 40 million copies, continues to sell one million annually and has been translated into 40 languages.
We have all suffered the pain and frustration of rejection, but Harper Lee, now aged 89, will certainly have the last laugh when her 60-year-old rejected first novel hits the world’s bookshelves with an initial print run of 2 million, and will undoubtedly…
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