Overview

• The posthumous collection features eight early short stories and nonfiction essays discovered in Lee’s New York apartment after her death.
• Lee’s nephew, Dr Edwin Conner, told Sky News it is possible significant unpublished material remains in her papers.
• Conner described a 111-page 1957 manuscript titled The Long Goodbye, whose status as a standalone work or connection to To Kill a Mockingbird is unclear.
• He also pointed to a long-rumored true-crime project on Alabama preacher Willie Maxwell known as The Reverend, with conflicting family accounts over whether any manuscript exists or where it might be.
• Family members say Lee attempted to publish these early pieces with her first agent in 1956 and characterize them as apprentice work that reveals her developing talent, as debate over posthumous releases lingers from the 2015 Go Set a Watchman controversy.