<P> Donations from friends allowed her to write uninterrupted for a year . After finishing the first draft and returning it to Lippincott, the manuscript, at that point titled "Go Set a Watchman", fell into the hands of Therese von Hohoff Torrey, known professionally as Tay Hohoff . Hohoff was impressed, "(T) he spark of the true writer flashed in every line," she would later recount in a corporate history of Lippincott, but as Hohoff saw it, the manuscript was by no means fit for publication . It was, as she described it, "more a series of anecdotes than a fully conceived novel ." During the following two and a half years, she led Lee from one draft to the next until the book finally achieved its finished form . </P> <P> After the "Watchman" title was rejected, it was re-titled Atticus but Lee renamed it To Kill a Mockingbird to reflect that the story went beyond a character portrait . The book was published on July 11, 1960 . The editorial team at Lippincott warned Lee that she would probably sell only several thousand copies . In 1964, Lee recalled her hopes for the book when she said, </P> <P> I never expected any sort of success with' Mockingbird .'...I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers but, at the same time, I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement . Public encouragement . I hoped for a little, as I said, but I got rather a whole lot, and in some ways this was just about as frightening as the quick, merciful death I'd expected . </P> <P> Instead of a "quick and merciful death", Reader's Digest Condensed Books chose the book for reprinting in part, which gave it a wide readership immediately . Since the original publication, the book has never been out of print . </P>

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