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The World Beyond BetterMost => The Culture Tent => Topic started by: Jeff Wrangler on February 04, 2015, 10:32:14 am

Title: A "new" Harper Lee manuscript has surfaced
Post by: Jeff Wrangler on February 04, 2015, 10:32:14 am

Big news last evening and this morning. A "new" manuscript by Harper Lee has come to light. I believe I heard it said it was found in her sister's safe-deposit box. It was reported on TV news that the manuscript is essentially a first version of what became To Kill a Mockingbird, with a Scout as an adult. The manuscript was rejected as is, and Lee was told to rewrite the story from the perspective of Scout as child--To Kill a Mockingbird as we know it.

Title: Re: A "new" Harper Lee manuscript has surfaced
Post by: CellarDweller on February 05, 2015, 09:41:14 am

Interesting.

I remember reading TKAM back in school many years ago.

Title: Re: A "new" Harper Lee manuscript has surfaced
Post by: brianr on February 05, 2015, 02:12:11 pm

Back in 1998 in the comparatively early days of the internet in schools, I made friends with a school librarian in Birmingham, Alabama.   first met her, when she was on a school tour to Australia and later attended a conference in Birmingham in 1999, then she and her husband kindly drove over to Charleston to meet me and my sister in 2007 and we met again in Chicago in 2010.  So we are still good friends but back in 1998/9 I excitedly told one of our teachers who was beginning to study TKAMB with his class that we could set up an exchange with students in Birmingham. I was disappointed when the reply came from my friend that they do not discuss that book in her school.