Harper Lee was 34 when she published To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960. The novel was an immediate hit, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1961, successfully filmed in 1962. The book has now sold some 40 million copies around the world and remains widely taught in schools.
Lee, however, published nothing else for the next 55 years and refused all interviews and appearances. Then, in 2015, when she was 89, in a wheelchair in an assisted living facility, almost deaf and blind after a stroke, a new novel suddenly appeared somehow: Go Set a Watchman.
