And it's a fucking shame too. She never wanted it published. Her relatives waited for her to die and took it upon themselves to screw with her legacy. Greedy bastards.
Camarillo's point is not really that off because Harper Lee's sister who was a lawyer was the one that protected her sister's privacy and made sure things like this never happened. Alice Lee died in Nov 2014, three months before the discovery of the new book was found. Alice Lee's Obituary If people wanted to get to Harper, then they would have to go through Alice who never wavered in protecting her sister. Until about 2011, she was the one that managed most of Harper's affairs. I wonder if this book would have seen the light of day if Alice was younger than Harper and still practicing law? So the correct statement to this was everyone waited for Alice Lee to die and then they went in for the money.
Well shit, you're right. But c'mon this wasn't her decisionIn February 2015 at age 88, nearly blind and deaf after a 2007 stroke, and after a lifetime of maintaining that she would never publish another novel, Lee released a statement through her attorney confirming publication of her second novel, Go Set a Watchman, written before To Kill a Mockingbird, which was released in July 2015.
The story I heard is she wrote this first then someone said the flashbacks were better than the main story and she scrapped it, writing To Kill a Mockingbird. Then her literary agent or attorney found this manuscript and got an invalid to sign off on the publication after refusing to do so for sixty years. There's also the story that Truman Capote wrote To Kill a Mockingbird as a gift to her as they were childhood friends. I'm only mentioning that because I think it's interesting. "It really makes you think," isn't an argument but I'm sure this book will create all sorts of theories and counter theories to that literary conspiracy.
It's an interesting story though for sure! She sat on the manuscript for a long time, then recently decided to publish. I wonder if it was pressure from her family, or some other reason? Seems odd to hide a book for so long. Here's what I found on WSJ - http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-i-found-the-harper-lee-manuscript-1436740810