"To Kill A Mockingbird" Author Harper Lee To Release Second Book

The reclusive author famously only published one novel until now.

To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee is set to release her long-awaited second novel this summer, her publisher confirmed to the Associated Press.

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As the publisher told the AP:

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.

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