Russell Berman: Without spoiling it, what can you tell us about Go Set a Watchman? Here's a transcript of our interview with Burnham, edited for clarity and length. Set for release on July 14, Go Set a Watchman will have an initial print run of 2 million copies, which he said was at the level "of a major best-seller." "I was a first-time writer, so I did what I was told," Lee said in the statement.īurnham wouldn't disclose the terms of the publishing deal with Lee. She recalled that when she turned in the manuscript for Go Set a Watchman, her editor asked her rewrite the book from the perspective of Scout as a child. In the announcement Tuesday, the publisher provided a statement in Lee's name. Lee won't be doing interviews or other publicity when the book comes out, but Burnham said Harper may ask her to write a new introduction.
He hasn't personally spoken to her, but he said her agent spent two days with her in January and reported back that she was "feisty," "full of good spirits," and reading voraciously. "She's very much engaged in the process," Burnham said. Her late sister, Alice Lee, described her in 2011 as mostly blind and deaf following a stroke four years earlier. Scout Finch, the precocious 12-year-old narrator of Mockingbird, is now an adult woman who has returned home to Alabama after living and working in New York City.ĭear Therapist: I’m Not Sure Why My Sister Stopped Giving Gifts to My Children, and I’m Afraid to Ask Lori Gottliebīurnham also addressed Lee's health, amid questions about exactly how much involvement she's had in the agreement to publish Go Set A Watchman.
Go Set a Watchman was written before Mockingbird, but takes place about 20 years later, during the civil rights movement. In an interview late Tuesday, Harper publisher Jonathan Burnham offered more details-but no spoilers!-about the new book, the unearthing of the manuscript, and plans for its release in July. The discovery, and Tuesday's announcement that the uncovered manuscript, Go Set A Watchman, would be published this summer, shocked both the publishing industry and the legions of Lee fans who had long ago given up hope that they'd ever read a new work by the 88-year-old Pulitzer Prize winner. What she found was something else entirely: a complete second book, believed to have been lost for more than 50 years. When Harper Lee's lawyer and close friend, Tonja Carter, went combing through the secure archive near the author's Alabama home last fall, she only intended to check on the condition of the original manuscript of Lee's beloved best-seller, To Kill a Mockingbird.
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