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February 4, 2015

Harper Lee, Author of "To Kill a Mockingbird," to Publish 2nd Novel 
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Harper Lee will publish a new novel
this summer. Lee, who is 88 years old, says she wrote a novel in the
mid-1950s called "Go Set a Watchman," which focuses on an adult woman
named Scout. But her editor persuaded her to focus on a younger Scout,
and that novel became the classic, "To Kill a Mockingbird." Lee says she
thought the old manuscript was lost until her lawyer discovered it. Both
novels are set in the fictional town of Maycomb, based on Lee's hometown
of Monroeville, Alabama.

 

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