The collection features eight previously unreleased short stories Lee wrote before she began To Kill a Mockingbird.

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Nine years after her death, Harper Lee has a new book on the way.

The manuscripts of these stories were found in her New York City apartment when she died in 2016.

Portrait of American novelist Harper Lee

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Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama.

She published her second novel,Go Set A Watchman, in February 2015 at the age of 88.

The Land of Sweet Forever: Stories and Essayswill be published on October 21, 2025.