Lawyer Explains How She Found Harper Lee Manuscript

By Dianna Dilworth 

There has been a lot of controversy about the discovery of the manuscript for the upcoming Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee. 

In a piece for The Wall Street Journal,  the family’s attorney Tonja B. Carter reveals how the manuscript was discovered. Check it out:

The story begins in June 2011 when Sam Pinkus, who was Nelle’s literary agent at the time, contacted her sister, Alice, and asked that he be allowed to examine and inventory Nelle’s assets. Alice, who has since died, was an attorney and until the last few years of her life handled most business matters for Nelle, who lives in an assisted-living facility. Mr. Pinkus was particularly interested in having the original manuscript for “To Kill a Mockingbird” examined and appraised. He said he needed to open Nelle’s safe-deposit box, where it was assumed the manuscript was held.