Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman Sets Pre-Sale Record for HarperCollins

Book2Book Tuesday 02 June 2015 

Go Set a Watchman, the controversial and highly anticipated novel by To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee, has—according to News Corp's chief executive Robert Thompson—set a pre-sale record for publishing house HarperCollins. The book comes out on July 14.


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Harper Lee letters up for auction ahead of Go Set a Watchman launch

An ‘exceptionally rare’ correspondence with old friend Harold Caufield will be sold next week in New York

Smalltown life is ‘better than the Chinese Torture method’... Harper Lee in 2007. Photograph: Rob Carr/AP

Alison Flood

Wednesday 3 June 2015 

With just over a month to go before Harper Lee publishes her second novel, Go Set a Watchman, Christie’s is preparing to auction an “exceptionally rare” collection of letters from the reclusive author, four of which date back to before the release of the book with which she would make her name, To Kill a Mockingbird.

The six typed letters, some of which are signed with comic pseudonyms such as The Prisoner of Zenda, were written by Lee to her old friend, New York architect Harold Caufield. Christie’s, which will auction the collection on 12 June in New York and expects it to make up to $250,000 (£163,000), said that the documents were exceptionally rare, with “no other material of this early date – and certainly not with such revealing and personal content – [coming] to auction in the last 40 years”.
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