The Land of Sweet Forever

A gorgeous deluxe special edition of Harper Lee’s The Land of Sweet Forever nestled within a slipcase. This edition features high production values, a bespoke book cover design and an exclusive piece of extra content from Harper Lee’s nephew, Ed Conor. Conor’s piece provides a glimpse into life with his aunt and the ways in which her novels intersect with this new book of never-been-seen short stories and collected works.

***A gorgeous deluxe special edition of Harper Lee’s The Land of Sweet Forever nestled within a slipcase. This edition features high production values, a bespoke book cover design and an exclusive piece of extra content from Harper Lee’s nephew, Dr. Edwin Lee Conner, providing a glimpse into life with his aunt and the ways in which her novels intersect with this new book of never-been-seen short stories and collected works.***

‘Someone rare … a writer with the liveliest sense of life and warmest, most authentic humour’ TRUMAN CAPOTE

‘A writer with something significant to say’ NEW YORK TIMES

‘A rare literary phenomenon’ VOGUE

‘ She changed the way we saw each other, and then the way we saw ourselves’ PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

From the beloved bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a posthumous collection of newly discovered writing, offering a fresh perspective on the remarkable literary mind behind To Kill a Mockingbird.

Also featuring an introduction by Casey Cep, Harper Lee’s appointed biographer.

Harper Lee remains a landmark figure in the American canon – thanks to Scout, Jem, Atticus, and the other indelible characters in her Pulitzer-winning debut, To Kill a Mockingbird; as well as for the darker, late-‘50s version of small-town Alabama that emerged in Go Set a Watchman, her only other novel, published in 2015 after its rediscovery.

The Land of Sweet Forever combines Lee’s never-before-seen short stories and published nonfiction in a volume offering an unprecedented look at the development of her inimitable voice. Covering territory from the Alabama schoolyards of Lee’s youth to the luncheonettes and movie houses of midcentury Manhattan, The Land of Sweet Forever invites still-vital conversations about politics, equality, travel, love, fiction, art, the American South, and what it means to lead an engaged and creative life.

This collection comes with an introduction by Casey Cep, Harper Lee’s appointed biographer, which provides illuminating background for our reading of these stories and connects them both to Lee’s life and to her two novels.

Combining Lee’s early short fiction and later nonfiction, The Land of Sweet Forever offers an unprecedented look at the development of her inimitable voice.

Author Biography

Harper Lee (Author)
Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She is the author of the acclaimed To Kill a Mockingbird, originally published in 1960; and Go Set a Watchman, published in July 2015. Ms Lee received the Pulitzer Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and numerous other literary awards and honours. She died in 2016.

Casey Cep (Introducer)
Casey Cep is at work on the authorized biography of Harper Lee. A staff writer at The New Yorker, she is the author of the bestselling book Furious Hours- Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee. She was born and raised on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, where she still lives with her family.