

"It features the character known as Scout as an adult woman, and I thought it a pretty decent effort.

"In the mid-1950s, I completed a novel called 'Go Set a Watchman,'" the 88-year-old Lee said in a statement issued by Harper. The publisher plans a first printing of 2 million copies. The 304-page book will be Lee's second, and the first new work in more than 50 years. Rediscovered last fall, "Go Set a Watchman" is essentially a sequel to "To Kill a Mockingbird," although it was finished earlier.

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. NEW YORK (AP) - "To Kill a Mockingbird" will not be Harper Lee's only published book after all.
