To Kill a Mockingbird was the first novel Harper Lee had published, but it wasn't the first one she wrote. That first effort, titled Go Set a Watchman, was submitted to a publisher in 1957. When the ...

Fortunately for avid bibliophiles, Harper Lee was an inveterate pack rat. Born in rural Monroeville, Ala., in 1926, the author of “To Kill a Mockingbird” — whose first name is Nelle, her grandmother ...

For much of Harper Lee’s life, “To Kill a Mockingbird” stood alone as her only major work; her first and, apparently, last novel, narrated by a voice so clear and coherent it seemed impossible that it ...