![]() After more than two years of editing and rewriting, To Kill A Mockingbird was born. ![]() ![]() Hohoff advised Lee to rewrite the draft but this time, instead of writing Jean Louise Finch as an adult, focus on her reminiscence of her childhood growing up in Maycomb with her brother Jem, living under the roof of her father Atticus, and summer days spent with a boy next door called Dill. To her alarm and disillusionment, Atticus, while a good father and a good man to all the rest in Maycomb, holds racist views and is firmly a segregationist. The draft’s protagonist, 26 year-old Jean Louise Finch, Scout, now a New Yorker, goes back to visit her childhood home in fictional Maycomb County, Alabama, and finds discrepancies about her father Atticus now from the man she thought she had known all the years growing up. Hohoff did not see it adequate to be published however, she did see promising elements in it, “the spark of the true writer flashed in every line,” she later recounted. In 1957, Lee’s agent submitted it to Tay Hohoff, an editor at the now defunct publishing house J. ![]() Go Set A Watchman is Harper Lee’s first draft of a novel (See links at the end of the post). ![]()
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