That resulted in “To Kill a Mockingbird,” which became a Pulitzer Prize-winning literary classic and led to a popular movie version starring Gregory Peck, who earned an Oscar for his role as Scout’s lawyer father, Atticus Finch. But Lee’s editor was more interested in the character of Jean Louise as a young girl, and encouraged the writer to tell the story from that perspective. “Go Set a Watchman” was actually Lee’s first manuscript, written after she left her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, and headed to Manhattan to pursue her dream of writing. The book includes three “stand alone pieces” featuring flashbacks of Scout, Burnham said. Scout, the 6-year-old narrator in Lee’s first - and until now, only - novel, is now a grown woman who goes by her given name, Jean Louise. “Go Set a Watchman” takes place in the mid 1950s, about 20 years after the trial that served as the centerpiece of Lee’s beloved “To Kill a Mockingbird.” The civil rights movement has erupted in the segregated south. The Harper Lee Collection: To Kill a Mockingbird + Go Set a Watchman (Dual Slipcased Edition) BOX SET Hardcover Box set, Octoby Harper Lee (Author) 959 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 33.49 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 60.00 19 Used from 26.30 2 New from 60.00 1 Collectible from 383. And so I think it will incite incredible conversation and argument." "I think people will have strong feelings about it because it actually has real relevance, real topicality in its treatment of race.
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