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 [1] The book features eight previously unpublished short stories discovered after her 2016 death, in an apartment she owned in New York City.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]
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]