2, was in Milwaukee to receive an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Mount Mary College. When it hits stores Tuesday, "Watchman" will be just the second novel published by Lee, age 89 - and the most preordered book in the history of its publisher, HarperCollins.īut on May 31, 1964, Lee, working on what she then hoped would be novel No. "Do you really think that the readers would want that?"Įxhibit A: The wave of anticipation building for "Go Set a Watchman," a recently unearthed work by Lee, written before but featuring characters from "Mockingbird," the beloved, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel from 1960. "It is not, however, a continuation of the adventures of Scout and Jem Finch," she said. It wouldn't be a sequel, the "To Kill a Mockingbird" author told the Milwaukee Sentinel. When Harper Lee came to Milwaukee in 1964, she said she was hard at work on her second novel.
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