The New York Times is reporting that Harper Lee, arthor of the best selling novel To Kill a Mockingbird, will be publishing a second novel, this summer.
According to the reputable newspaper, quoting the author's publisher, the novel, titled Go Set a Watchman, was killed in the mid 1950s, and takes place when Scout Finch, the heroine of To Kill a Mockingbird, is grown up and looking back on her childhood. It also features many of the same characters from the famous novel.
In an intriguing bit of historical perspective, Ms. Lee, speaking through her publisher, said she wrote Go Set a Watchman first, but was asked by an editor to rework the novel from the character Scout Finch's point of view. That second book became To Kill a Mockingbird, the classic work of fiction that has sold 40 million copies, worldwide.
After that successful debut, Ms. Lee, surprisingly, never published another novel.
For many years she thought the earlier book had been destroyed. After it was rediscovered by a friend, she was persuaded by a few friends who told her that they considered it worthy of publication.
"I am humbled and amazed that this will now be published after all these years," Ms. Lee, now 88 years old, said.
SOURCE: New York Times
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