The Land of Sweet Forever
2025 posthumous short story collection by Harper Lee
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The Land of Sweet Forever is a collection of short stories by American author Harper Lee, published posthumously on October 21, 2025, by HarperCollins.[1] The book features eight previously unpublished short stories discovered after her 2016 death in an apartment she owned in New York City.[2] Eight additional pieces, which appeared in different publications between the years 1961 and 2006, are also included.[3] The book's introduction is by Casey Cep, the author of Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee.[4]
Cover, similar in design to the first edition of To Kill a Mockingbird. | |
| Author | Harper Lee |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fiction |
Publication date | October 2025 |
| Publication place | United States |
| ISBN | 9781529155662 |
The eight newly released stories were written after Lee dropped out of the University of Alabama School of Law and prior to the success of her novels Go Set a Watchman and To Kill a Mockingbird at a time when the young author was submitting short fiction pieces to publishing outlets.[5] In 2024, her estate approved these stories for publication along with eight previously published pieces that were written after the acclaim of To Kill a Mockingbird, when Lee's subsequent work was more readily published.[6]
Contents
Stories
- The Water Tank
- The Binoculars
- The Pinking Shears
- A Roomful of Kibble
- The Viewers and the Viewed
- This is Show Business?
- The Cat's Meow
- The Land of Sweet Forever
Essays and Miscellaneous Pieces
- Love—in Other Words
- Crackling Bread
- Christmas to Me
- Gregory Peck
- When Children Discover America
- Truman Capote
- Romance and High Adventure
- A Letter from Harper Lee