Quite a few novelists\u2013Joseph Heller, J. D. Salinger, Ralph Ellison\u2013have written one great novel, but then wrote nothing else, or nothing else in its league.\u00a0 One of those writers is Harper Lee, whose To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em>, published in 1960, makes the bestseller lists to this day.\u00a0 So readers have been excited to hear that she is coming out with another novel, Go Set a Watchman<\/a>, which won\u2019t even be released until July 14 but is already an Amazon bestseller.<\/p>\n But this is not exactly a new novel.\u00a0 Apparently, it\u2019s the first draft of what would later become Mockingbird<\/em>.\u00a0 It\u2019s the story of an adult woman, who goes by the nickname of \u201cScout,\u201d who goes to visit her aged father Atticus, whereupon the story is told, in third person, as a reminiscence.\u00a0 When she showed it to a publisher, the editor recommended that she re-write the book from the point of view of Scout as a child.\u00a0 That was brilliant advice, since one of the things that makes Mockingbird such great fiction is the narrative voice and the perspective of young Scout, who tells a warm and often humorous tale of growing up in the deep south, which suddenly turns serious as her father, an attorney, bravely defends a black man in a rape trial.<\/p>\n