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Why did Harper Lee stop writing?

Harper Lee, author of the celebrated novel To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), did not stop writing altogether after its publication, but the pressures of fame and concerns about scrutiny of her work considerably hampered her ability to keep writing. She subsequently published a few essays, and in 2015 she published a second novel, Go Set a Watchman. It was written before To Kill a Mockingbird and is sometimes described as the original draft of her famous first novel, but it was released as a sequel.