Elaine W. Ng is the editor and publisher of ArtAsiaPacific, a 20 - year
old publication dedicated to contemporary art from Asia, the Pacific and the Middle East.
In the five months since the «discovery» and planned
publication of the manuscript was announced, countless pages and social media streams have been
dedicated to debates over the 89 - year -
old author's agency in the decision and discussions of what the book, written as an early draft of To Kill a Mockingbird but set some 20 years later, might reveal about some of literature's most beloved characters.