After To Kill a Mockingbird was published, Harper Lee set aside Go Set a Watchman and never returned to it. In 2015, HarperCollins published Go Set a Watchman, which was originally written by Lee in the 1950s and features many of the same characters as To Kill a Mockingbird. Atticus Finch became an enduring symbol of moral integrity in the midst of systemic racism. It won the Pulitzer Prize, has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, and maintains a top ranking on most critics’ lists of best novels of the twentieth century. The book offered an unflinching but ultimately uplifting look at issues of race and class, as well as difficult subjects like prejudice and moral compromise. She pushed Lee to keep revising-even when the frustrated author threw her lone draft out a second-story window into the snow-writing drafts in first-person and third-person perspectives. Lippincott (later acquired by HarperCollins) editor Therese (Tay) von Hohoff saw the first draft of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), she saw a promising story, but one in need of some reshaping and editing.
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