'Watchman' Novel Sells More Than 1M in First Week

Harper Lee's unexpected 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. The novel was released on July 14, 55 years after the author's only other published work, "To Kill a Mockingbird," a classic story of racial injustice in the American South. "Watchman," written in the 1950s, was a...

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