SECOND HARPER LEE NOVEL TO BE PUBLISHED IN JULY

[Mark Kohut]

she struggled for years with a hodgepodge of anecdotes about
small-town Southern life, first called Go Set a Watchman and then
Atticus. She received encouragement from an agent, Maurice Crain, and
an editor, Lippincott's Tay Hohoff, who had seen the work-in-progress,
but one night in 1957 she flung the unfinished manuscript out the
window of her Manhattan cold-water flat. After a teary phone call to
Hohoff, Lee charged down the stairs, recovered the forsaken pages--and
then began a title-on-down revision that resulted in a book that would
become a Literary Guild selection and Book of the Month Club
alternate, and that the New Yorker would call "unpretentious and
totally ingenious" and the Chicago Tribune would hail as "a novel of
strong contemporary national significance."


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