re: Harper Lee to publish new novel, 55 years after To Kill a Mockingbird

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makes over $9000 a day from its sales

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for real?

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Message Posted by nolaks John Kennedy Tool



He and Margaret Mitchell don't count. They died before they could write or publish another.

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Plus, Toole has a second posthumously published book that he wrote in high school. ETA, and of course he died before the first was even published -- basically killed himself because it wasn't.

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basically killed himself because it wasn't.


or because he was a self-destructive, homo alcoholic...in the South, in the 60's

Tough combo

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I guess it's usually hard to say, what's the straw that breaks the camel's back in these instances.

Yup, it came out a few years back in a lawsuit over the copyright.

for Reals, yo


Let's see, 9000X365X55years=approx $180 Million dollars

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Yep. The speculation, and it has a lot of merit, is that actually Truman Capote wrote To Kill a Mockingbird.

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No it doesn't. People close to Capote have stated that he did not write the book, and Mocking Bird has a completely different style. It's like trying to believe we didn't land on the moon, honestly. Always a sense of paranoia about something.

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What evidence was presented that leads posters in here to assume Capote wrote the book, other than he and Lee being friends?

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My gosh man, where do you think you are posting? The O-T doesn't trade in facts...speculations serve us very well, thank you.

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X55years

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She may make $9000 per day off of it now but she hasn't been making that for all 55 years it's been published.

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She may make $9000 per day off of it now but she hasn't been making that for all 55 years it's been published.

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May not be exactly that much every year, but it's not like the book just started selling. I'm sure she made that or close to the equivalent in each year's dollars. She's obviously made bank over the past 56 years.