Did Harper Lee Really Want to Release New Book? Alabama Investigating Claim of Elder Abuse Against To Kill a Mockingbird Author

State looking into her welfare at the assisted-living facility where 88-year-old legend resides

Is it possible that Harper Lee still doesn't want to publish the now hotly anticipated follow-up to her 1960 classic To Kill a Mockingbird?

The state of Alabama is investigating the quality of the iconic author's care at the assisted-living facility where she resides in the wake of ongoing concern over whether the 88-year-old Lee was capable of consenting to the publication of Go Set a Watchman, which she worked on before Mockingbird and which ended up giving rise to the classic tale of Scout, Jem and their lawyer father Atticus Finch, one of the most upright men in all of fiction.

Since Lee only published the one novel, the eyebrow-raising announcement that No. 2 was on the way also gave rise to the question: Whose decision was it, really?