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In 1960, on the eve of the Civil Rights Movement, when Jim Crow remained law across the American South, Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning To Kill a Mockingbird, a new landmark in the American literary canon, was published to great sensation. It was followed by Go Set a Watchman, Lee's only other novel - a darker vision of 1950s small-town Alabama, published in 2015 after its rediscovery. The Land of Sweet Forever combines the short fiction Lee wrote early in her career -- before she was a literary legend -- with her later essays and magazine pieces. The collection includes an introduction by Casey Cep, Lee's appointed biographer, which provides illuminating background to these pieces and connects them to her life and her novels.
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