55 years on, Harper Lee to publish sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird

February 04, 2015 08:15

The literary world is celebrating the news that Harper Lee will release a sequel to her beloved novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, a mere 55 years after she published that schoolroom classic.

HarperCollins Publishers announced that its Harper imprint has acquired North American rights to Go Set A Watchman, a lost novel that Lee wrote before she produced To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960, and will publish it in July. To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel about race and class in the South during the Depression, won the Pulitzer Prize.

Lee explains that she originally wrote a novel about the adult Scout's relationship with her father, Atticus, and included the childhood scenes as flashbacks. Those scenes became To Kill a Mockingbird while Go Set a Watchman is set 20 years later and thus can be billed as a sequel.

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