'I know this because Miss Alice told me this when I interviewed her. 'Miss Alice, Harper Lee's sister, had the original manuscript in a safety deposit box in a vault in the bank in Monroeville,' Murphy said Tuesday. Murphy put those interviews into a companion book, 'Scout, Atticus & Boo: A Celebration of Fifty Years of 'To Kill a Mockingbird.' ' Included in the interviews were the recollections of Harper Lee's sister, Alice, who died in November at age 103. The Scarborough writer-director-producer created the 2010 documentary, 'Hey, Boo: Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird,' in which authors, teachers and celebrities – from Oprah Winfrey and James Patterson to Tom Brokaw and Anna Quindlen – reflect on the book's influence. Westchester writer Mary McDonough Murphy has a pretty good idea. The New York publisher Harper said it will print 2 million copies of the unaltered 304-page novel, which tells the story of a grown-up Jean Louise Finch returning to Maycomb, Alabama, from New York and trying to come to terms with her father's view of society. That will change in July, when 'Go Set a Watchman,' which was written before 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and first created the characters of Atticus and Scout Finch, will hit shelves.

She has been a romantic figure, creating one perfect novel and not writing another word. Readers have been clamoring for more from Lee – a close associate of the flamboyant Truman Capote – who went on to live a quiet life in her native Monroeville, Alabama.

On Tuesday, Harper Lee and 'To Kill a Mockingbird' were trending. Social media was abuzz on Tuesday on the news that publisher Harper would print Lee's 'Go Set a Watchman' in July, 54 years after 'To Kill a Mockingbird' captured the American imagination and won the Pulitzer Prize. A Westchester filmmaker can't confirm it, but she's pretty sure she knows where Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' sequel was all those years.

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