Thread:AustinDR/@comment-27586321-20150714174431/@comment-27818776-20150714181141

Well, the story was actually written prior to Harper Lee writing TKAM. She proposed the manuscript (which was really somewhat of a first draft) to her editor, and her editor wanted her to write a book from Scout's perspective when she was a child, thus TKAM was born.

Go Set a Watchman is supposedly a novel that takes place in an alternate Maycomb. Atticus is presnted as a racist in it, and it's also shown that Atticus got Tom off of the rape accusation by claiming that it was consensual. So, technically speaking, Harper Lee did write the novel, but now many literary critics are saying that she might have not wanted it to be published in the first place, but then she developed dementia.