AdvertisementHarper Lee Plans To Publish A New Novel Featuring 'Mockingbird' HeroFebruary 03, 2015Colin DwyerfacebookEmailHarper Lee, seen here receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007, actually wrote Go Set a Watchman first. But she set it aside when her editor suggested focusing on Scout's flashbacks instead — and she did, in what became To Kill a Mockingbird. (Getty Images)