and celebrity culture and paparazzi, nell harper lee comes from the inside out and therefore she can live there in some kind of contentment, some kind of peace with herself. reporter: for decades, harper lee vowed never to publish another book, content with one masterpiece. that s why many believe the elderly write has been manipulated by someone into releasing this book. this author spent nearly two years with harper lee and her sister alice who died last november. alice was not only her big sister but her protector, her adviser. she said harper will sign anything put in front of her by someone in whom she has confidence. reporter: now there s a sense that even more harper lee books could emerge. lee s lawyer suggests there could be a third book and wayne flint says he knows there s a fourth book a fictional, non-fiction tale of an alabama preacher accused of murdering four family members.
around her say she s quite delighted hat this development. all right. both of you somehow have read this book which has been out for like three hours. charles, let me throw this to you. having now read the whole book yes, i m jealousllalous what surprised you the most? the book is discursive, vulgar in places. there s much too much of harper lee s feeling in this book. it does nothing for her legacy. the only value in this book is that it reopened some very painful conversations about racism and segregation. yes, people are upset about this atticus finch. but he s very very typical of a lot of southern males in the mid 20th century. so accept it. this is the way things were and
novel go set a watchman started with a midnight party in the writer s hometown of monroeville, alabama. sher caldwell is an english schoolteacher who drove nine hours from kentucky to be here. she s mystified by the transformation of atticus finch in the watchman novel, the beloved character who s now a racist. he represents everything good in the moral compass of the book. and if i m wrong, it s embarrassing. reporter: as thousands have flocked to lee s hometown the reclusive writer who is known around here simply as nell spent the day in this assisted living center security guards on the front porch keeping reporters and others away. wayne flint is a dear friend of harper lee. he says the writer struggles to hear and see and describes her life as boring. but flint says she s okay with that. she is an american enigma because in an age of narcissism
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documentary from mockingbird to watchman and she met with harper lee a week and a half ago. mary, i ll start with you here. i have to know what s her state of mind in general and what s her state of mind regarding the release of this book and the controversy surrounding it? well i can only tell you what i observed. i was there filming and recording an event in which the publishers both british and american presented harper lee with spanking new copies of her new novel. and she expressed thanks and it was a little presentation. and surprisingly i was able to sit down and ask her a question. and so i said did you ever think you would see this published? and she said of course i did, don t be silly. wow. that answers the question at least that she knows what s going on and she at least according to her conversation with you supports it. yes. and all the statements she s released and all the statements from her friends and people