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a new collection of harper leeHer family have said that the early short stories show “a brilliant writer she was becoming”.
Pulitzer Prize winner Lee, who died in 2016 at the age of 89, was best known as a writer To Kill a MockingbirdA story of race relations and legal injustice in 1930s Alabama.
Released in 1960, the novel is believed to have sold over 40 million copies since its publication and is widely considered a classic of 20th-century American literature.
Despite the success of the book, which was later adapted into a film starring Gregory Peck as lawyer Atticus Finch, Lee decided to stay out of the limelight throughout her life, and widely announced that she would not publish any more novels.
However, a second novel, go hire a watchman, Considered to be an early draft of To Kill a MockingbirdFinally published in 2015, when Lee was 88.
Eight short stories written in his youth were discovered in his New York apartment after his death. The stories, along with non-fiction essays, are now being published in a collection titled Land of Everlasting Sweetness,
Nephew of author Ed Lee Connor told the BBC that the “apprentice stories” “are not a full expression of his talent and yet he has talent”.
“She was a brilliant writer and you can see something of her talent in these stories,” he said.
The author’s niece, her cousin Molly Lee, said she was “very happy” that the stories were found, because “it’s interesting to see how her writing evolved and how she worked on her art”.
She said, “I can also tell you how he improved.”
When asked by the BBC whether publishing the stories posthumously could be seen as an invasion of privacy for the notoriously publicity-shy Lee, his nephew insisted that he “tried to get all these stories published” during his lifetime.
2015 publication of go hire a watchman important controversy arose In the literary world, some critics and readers have raised concerns that the elder Lee, who suffered a stroke in 2007 and later struggled with significant health problems, might have felt pressure to release this early work.
However, Lee released a statement after publication saying that he was “alive and active and extremely pleased with the reactions.” watchman,
Land of Everlasting Sweetness Will be released on 21st October.