Go Set a Watchman, which will feature Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird as an adult woman
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Harper Lee, the author of the beloved novel To Kill a Mockingbird, will publish a second book this summer. Go Set a Watchman was completed in the 1950s, but set aside by the writer, who went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for the only novel she ever published.
More than 50 years after author Harper Lee's only published novel — the iconic "To Kill a Mockingbird" — his shelves, a second book, once thought lost by everyone including the author herself, is coming to life, her publisher announced Tuesday.
According the the Huffington Post, the novel, which Lee titled "Go Set a Watchman," was written in the mid-1950s — penned before what in 1960 would become the must-read tale of lawyer Atticus Finch, his daughter, Scout, and Atticus' defense of a falsely accused black man in the Depression-era South.
"To Kill a Mockingbird" was published in 1960. It was later made into a movie starring Gregory Peck, which won three Academy Awards. Robert Duvall, who played "Boo" Radley in the film, said that role was "a pivotal point in my career" and that he was looking forward to reading the new book.
The famously private Lee is unlikely to do a book tour; she hasn't given an interview since 1964. "I am humbled and amazed that this will now be published after all these years," Lee is quoted saying in a statement.
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