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Coming to an e-reader near you: Sequel to "To Kill A Mockingbird" to be published

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buzzz worthy. . . By Mona Austin Harper Lee will publish a sequel to her Pulitzer prize winning tome, "To Kill A Mockingbird"  55 years after its release.  Although she is well known as a classic American novelist, this will be Lee's second novel. She thought the manuscript of the first book she wrote was gone for years and it was finally found in her late sister's safe deposit box  attached to the original manuscript of "Mockingbird." "In the mid-1950s, I completed a novel called 'Go Set a Watchman,'" the 88-year-old Lee said in a statement issued by publisher Harper. "It features the character known as Scout as an adult woman, and I thought it a pretty decent effort. My editor, who was taken by the flashbacks to Scout's childhood, persuaded me to write a novel (what became 'To Kill a Mockingbird') from the point of view of the young Scout."     Lee took the editor's recommendation.  The book she ac...