To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee’s short stories and essays to be published
‘We can never know too much’ about ‘great American author’ Harper Lee, nephew says of coming book of essays, newly unearthed short fiction
Essays and early short stories by To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee will be published this autumn.
The Land of Sweet Forever is a compilation of short fiction Lee wrote in the years before the 1960 release of her classic novel, and includes essays completed between 1961 and 2006. Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, will release the book on October 21. It will include an introduction by Lee’s authorised biographer, Casey Cep.
“As a member of Harper Lee’s surviving family, I know I speak for all of us in saying that we’re delighted that these essays, and especially the short stories, which we knew existed but were only recently discovered, have been found and are being published,” the late author’s nephew, Dr Edwin Conner, said.
“She was not just our beloved aunt, but a great American writer, and we can never know too much about how she came to that pinnacle,” he said.
