The news that Harper Lee has her long-awaited second novel on the way (just a casual 55 years after her one hit wonder To Kill a Mockingbird) came as a surprise to those who did not realise she was still even alive. Once that news had settled in, it came as an even bigger shock to the BBC’s North America Editor Jon Sopel that Lee was a woman:
Sopel swiftly becoming acquainted with the modern-day equivalent of a lynching: the fury of the Twitter mob. Sopel soon deleted the original tweet and seems to have recognised the error of his ways:
good point everyone….
— Jon Sopel (@BBCJonSopel) February 3, 2015
Mr S presumes Sopel never saw the film Capote then…
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