harper lee is famous as the autor of To Kill a Mockingbird, whoch since it appeared in 1960 has sold over 40 million copies and been voted,in a survey by Library Journal, the most influential novel of tje 20th century.It was the first one she wrote.That was Go Set a Watchman,which she wrote in the mid-1950s in a cold-water flat inNew York City wile working as an airline reservationist.At the time,her editor suggested that she shelve it and write about the childhood of the book's hero, Jean Louise Finch,nicknamed Sout.