After initially fighting to sustain the will private,Lee’s attorney Tonja Carter – who found the manuscript for fade Set a Watchman – is named as the executor of the author’s estateA will signed by Harper Lee eight days before her death has been unsealed by an Alabama court, after the New York Times (NYT) filed a lawsuit arguing that the document should be a matter of public record.
The will was sealed in 2016, or after Lee’s lawyer and personal representative Tonja Carter – a controversial figure since the publication of Lee’s fade Set a Watchman,a manuscript Carter said she discovered in a safe deposit box in Lee’s hometown of Monroeville – cited the author’s desire for privacy in court.
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Source: guardian.co.uk