The New York Times (and nearly every other news outlet) reported yesterday that, at age 88, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of one of the most iconic books in American literature, Harper Lee, is publishing a follow-up to To Kill a Mockingbird.
The new book, titled Go Set a Watchman and set to be released in July, apparently features the precocious narrator, Scout, now as an adult and returning home to visit her father amid the racial discord of the South in the 1950s. Ms. Lee insists the new book is not a sequel (in fact, in a strange twist, it was actually written prior to Mockingbird, but just went unpublished), and instead calls Watchman "the parent to Mockingbird."
According to the Times, the original beloved book "has sold more than 40 million copies globally since it was published in 1960. It continues to sell more than a million copies a year and has been translated into more than 40 languages." Despite such success, Lee famously never published again...until now. With her original work continuing to live in the minds and hearts of young and old readers alike, Ms. Lee's new book is certainly highly anticipated, and I will be among those eager to check it out.
The new book, titled Go Set a Watchman and set to be released in July, apparently features the precocious narrator, Scout, now as an adult and returning home to visit her father amid the racial discord of the South in the 1950s. Ms. Lee insists the new book is not a sequel (in fact, in a strange twist, it was actually written prior to Mockingbird, but just went unpublished), and instead calls Watchman "the parent to Mockingbird."
According to the Times, the original beloved book "has sold more than 40 million copies globally since it was published in 1960. It continues to sell more than a million copies a year and has been translated into more than 40 languages." Despite such success, Lee famously never published again...until now. With her original work continuing to live in the minds and hearts of young and old readers alike, Ms. Lee's new book is certainly highly anticipated, and I will be among those eager to check it out.