Harper Lee to publish second novel

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http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2015/02/to_kill_a_mockingbird_author_h.html

Holy crap

To Kill a Mockingbird will not be Harper Lee's only published book after all.

Publisher Harper announced Tuesday that Go Set a Watchman, a novel the Pulitzer Prize-winning author completed in the 1950s and put aside, will be released July 14. Rediscovered last fall, "Go Set a Watchman" is essentially a sequel to "To Kill a Mockingbird," although it was finished earlier. The 304-page book will be Lee's second, and the first new work in more than 50 years.

The publisher plans a first printing of 2 million copies.

"In the mid-1950s, I completed a novel called 'Go Set a Watchman,'" the 88-year-old Lee said in a statement issued by Harper. "It features the character known as Scout as an adult woman, and I thought it a pretty decent effort. My editor, who was taken by the flashbacks to Scout's childhood, persuaded me to write a novel (what became 'To Kill a Mockingbird') from the point of view of the young Scout."

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1. Harper Lee...

...on why she wrote just one book.

Historian Wayne Flynt asked his friend, Harper Lee, why she stopped writing novels after "To Kill a Mockingbird," and she answered.

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