Harper Lee to Publish Sequel to 'To Kill a Mockingbird'
NEW YORK (AP) - "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. Reactions ranged from euphoria (Oprah Winfrey issued a statement saying, "I couldn't be happier if my name was Scout") to skepticism about Lee's cooperation and about the quality of the new book. Biographer Charles J. Shields noted that Lee was a "beginning author" when she wrote "Watchman." The 304-page book will be Lee's second, and her first new work in print in more than 50 years, among the longest gaps in history for a major writer. "In the mid-1950s, I completed a novel called 'Go Set a Wa...