![]() ![]() The Lippincott editors were impressed with the skill Lee displayed in what she was then calling Go Set a Watchman-we will return to that title, and that draft, a bit later-but told her that there was still a lot of work needed. Lee made good use of that time, and delivered the first draft of a novel to Lippincott Publishers in late 1957. Lee’s friends pooled their resources to give her an extraordinary Christmas gift-a year’s wages so that she would have uninterrupted time for writing. By 1956, she had enough material to show to a literary agent, who encouraged her to continue writing, and suggested that there might be a novel somewhere in the pieces she’d already written. ![]() She studied law at the University of Alabama, then moved to New York in 1950, where she began writing essays and stories about her childhood in Monroeville. Lee was born in 1926, and grew up in Monroeville, Alabama. The novel was an instant success, and quickly became a standard of American literature. ![]() Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird was published on July 11, 1960. ![]()
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