Harper Lee's New Novel "Go Set A Watchman" Becomes the fastest selling book in the history of publisher HarperCollins

 

Harper Lee's new novel "Go Set A Watchman" has become the fastest selling book in the history of publisher HarperCollins, with more than 1.1 million copies sold in North America in the first week, the company said on Monday July 20,2015

 

HarperCollins, a unit of News Corp, said on Monday it had ordered reprints several times and now has a North American print run for 'Watchman' of more than 3.3 million. It did not give sales figures or print runs for the rest of the world.

The novel was released on July 14, 2015,55 years after the author's only other published work, "To Kill a Mockingbird," a classic story of racial injustice in the American South

 

"Go Set A Watchman" written in the 1950s, was a first draft of "Mockingbird" with many of the same characters

Harper Lee, now 89, withdrew from public life shortly after the success of "Mockingbird" and the 1962 Oscar-winning film version starring Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch.