Harper Lee: American Masters offers an unprecedented look at Lee’s life, illuminates the phenomenon behind To Kill a Mockingbird and the Oscar®-winning 1962 film adaptation, and previews Go Set a Watchman, which Lee wrote in 1957. Lee once said she wanted to be South Alabama’s Jane Austen, but became an enigma when she stopped speaking to press in 1964 after her whirlwind success. July 17: Six Degrees of Harper Lee web feature July 16: Go Set a Watchman: What Readers are Saying web feature on WORLD TM (check local listings) and WLIW World July 15: Go Set a Watchman first chapter on the American Masters website encore broadcast of Harper Lee: American Masters at 9:30 a.m. July 14: Encore broadcast of Harper Lee: American Masters at 6:30 p.m.
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July 13: Harper Lee: American Masters free screening and Q&A with Murphy at the Tisch WNET Studios at Lincoln Center. on WLIW21 encore broadcast of Harper Lee: American Masters July 12: PBS NewsHour Weekend Harper Lee report premieres at 6 p.m. July 11: ReddIt AMA with Murphy at 2 p.m.ET on PBS (check local listings) and THIRTEEN with Murphy live Twitter chat (#HarperLeePBS) July 10: Harper Lee: American Masters at 9-10:30 p.m. July 9: MetroFocus interview with Murphy premieres at 7 p.m. July 8: Online To Kill a Mockingbird quiz and Harper Lee book bundle giveaway July 7: New, multimedia To Kill a Mockingbird classroom resources for teachers on PBS LearningMedia July 6: To Kill a Mockingbird online book club in partnership with New York Public Library launches (runs through July 13) July 5: “THIRTEEN Days of Harper Lee” launches at /americanmasters In the New York metro area, PBS flagship station THIRTEEN, which produces the American Masters series, will celebrate the release of Go Set a Watchman with “ THIRTEEN Days of Harper Lee, “ a 13-day, multi-platform event on-air, online and in the community from Sunday, July 5 – Friday, July 17 featuring web exclusive content, broadcast interstitials and more:
How and why this happened is a mystery we unravel in the new version of the documentary,” said Murphy. Its remarkable discovery allows readers of Lee’s beloved classic the chance to see Atticus and Scout again. “ Go Set a Watchman was written before To Kill a Mockingbird and believed to be lost or destroyed. The author of Scout, Atticus & Boo: A Celebration of To Kill a Mockingbird, Murphy was able to read an advance copy of the new novel before updating the film and will live tweet (#HarperLeePBS) during the broadcast.
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In honor of this landmark literary event, THIRTEEN’s American Masters series presents a newly updated version of Emmy®-winning filmmaker Mary McDonagh Murphy’s 2012 documentary Harper Lee: Hey, Boo, broadcast as Harper Lee: American Masters on Friday, July 10, 9 – 10:30 p.m. On July 14, HarperCollins will release Lee’s earliest known work, Go Set a Watchman, featuring characters from her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, which was published 55 years ago (July 11, 1960). One of the most influential American novels of the 20 th century and biggest bestsellers of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird was believed to be the first and only novel by Nelle Harper Lee (born April 28, 1926), until now. Watch films and and connect with more than 200 cultural icons at pbs.org/americanmasters New York metro area celebration “THIRTEEN Days of Harper Lee” features special broadcasts, web exclusives and event at Tisch WNET Studios at Lincoln Center