More than five decades after releasing “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Harper Lee is publishing a second book. The announcement was made by her publisher Tuesday.

“Go Set a Watchman” will be published July 14. The new book's storyline follows Scout, the little girl from "To Kill a Mockingbird" as an adult.

“In the mid-1950s, I completed a novel called ‘Go Set a Watchman,’ ” she said in a statement. “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."

“Watchman” is set in the 1950s and is about Scout returning to her hometown of Maycomb, Ala., to see her father, Atticus Finch.

“To Kill a Mockingbird” was published in 1960, won the Pulitzer Prize and was made into a film in 1962. Gregory Peck won the Oscar for best actor for his role as Atticus Finch.

Until now, it had been Lee's only published novel.

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