“Watchman is compelling in its timeliness. During the historical moment in which the novel takes place, in states such as Georgia and South Carolina, legislators had begun to authorize the raising of ...

The literary world was rocked last spring when news surfaced that author Harper Lee, the creator of the beloved modern classic “To Kill a Mockingbird,” had penned another story set in Maycomb Junction ...

1. The publication of this book. Harper Lee is a sight and hearing-impaired 89-year-old stroke victim. In November 2014, her protector, her sister Alice, passed away. Since then, her accounts have ...

Disclaimer: This review contains plot spoilers for "Go Set a Watchman," including the book's ending. I grew up in Montgomery, Ala. in the 1980s, 100 miles from Harper Lee's Monroeville. You were spoon ...

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It would be a mistake to read Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman” as a sequel to her 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Yes, it takes place a generation after the earlier book, and it ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In “Go Set a Watchman,” the novel that Harper Lee wrote before her seismic 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the wisest words come not ...

Last week on Facebook, a friend declared she will now abandon plans to name any future son of hers Atticus. She is not alone among fans of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), including ...

Legions of readers have eagerly awaited the release of “Go Set a Watchman (Harper Collins),” the previously unpublished precursor of Harper Lee’s iconic “To Kill a Mockingbird,” and now that it’s out, ...

The literary world was rocked last spring when news surfaced that author Harper Lee, the creator of the beloved modern classic “To Kill a Mockingbird,” had penned another story set in Maycomb Junction ...

Nearly 22 years after I first read "To Kill a Mockingbird," I drove to a tiny midnight release for "Go Set a Watchman." (Megan Lavey-Heaton, PennLive.com) Disclaimer: This review contains plot ...