A collection of short fiction and essays by Harper Lee is coming later this year, the Associated Press reports.
Harper will publish The Land of Sweet Forever, by the To Kill a Mockingbird author, in the fall. It will be the third book by Lee and the first to be published since her death in 2016.
Lee, an Alabama native, worked odd jobs in New York City before publishing To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960. The novel, which told the story of widowed lawyer Atticus Finch and his two children, Scout and Jem, living in a small Alabama town, was a massive bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. In 1962 it was adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Gregory Peck, Robert Duvall, and Mary Badham.
In 2015, Lee published her second novel, Go Set a Watchman, at the age of 89. The book told the story of an older Scout, now living in New York, visiting her father in Alabama. The novel was controversial, with some questioning whether Lee actually wanted it to be published.
The new book will feature stories Lee wrote before To Kill a Mockingbird and essays written between the publication of that novel and the release of Go Set a Watchman.
Edwin Conner, a nephew of Lee, said in a statement, “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 Land of Sweet Forever is slated for publication on Oct. 21.
