Harper Lee: Nothing New in
That Safe Deposit Box
Despite hints by Harper Lee’s attorney, Tonja Carter, there is no new book in Lee’s safe-deposit box.
As we reported earlier, Carter had suggested there could be more than one new title on the way.
As the Wall Street Journal now reports, those hints turned up empty. A rare-book expert, James S. Jaffe, brought in to review the box, has issued a report stating that it only contains pieces of Lee’s two published novels and copyright documents.
According to Jaffe, the pages show the transformation of Lee’s original draft into the published form of To Kill a Mockingbird and where segments of Go Set a Watchman appeared in Mockingbird.
Jaffe’s full report is posted at the end of the WSJ article.
Of course, for all those invested in even more books by Lee, there could always be other papers in other places and there is still the rumor of the true crime novel floating around.