Harper Lee's unpublished stories and articles will be published in Spanish in October.

Under the title The Land of the Sweet Hereafter , Lumen publishing house will publish in Spanish in October a book of unpublished stories and articles by Harper Lee , author of To Kill a Mockingbird, a classic of American literature for which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961.

The stories Harper Lee wrote before To Kill a Mockingbird and sent to literary magazines such as Tomorrow, Harper's Bazaar, and The New Yorker with the intention of publishing them were found in her New York apartment after her death in 2016, along with some rejection letters.

This edition, which will be released internationally , includes a foreword by Harper Lee biographer Casey Cep, which connects the stories to Lee's life and her two novels, as well as images from the author's annotated manuscript.

Harper Lee became one of the most iconic writers in the American canon thanks to To Kill a Mockingbird , which was adapted into a film by Robert Mulligan and won three Oscars , including one for Gregory Peck for his role as Atticus Finch.

In 2015, amid great anticipation and controversy, an unpublished sequel, Go Set a Watchman, was released.

The stories being published now were written while working as an airline reservations clerk , with the hope of publishing them in magazines, according to the publisher, which believes they possess "her distinctive voice" and "her inimitable humor, rhythm, and everyday appeal."

In them, she recounts new episodes in the life of Jean Louise Finch —or different alter egos of her—from her childhood at school in Maycomb, Alabama, to her youth in the restaurants and cinemas of 1950s Manhattan.

The author of the prologue, Casey Cep, emphasizes that in them "one senses Lee trying to follow the line of a Salinger or a Cheever."

The book also includes, for the first time in Spanish, the articles that the writer published in various media between 1961 and 2006 , with reflections on responsible teaching, personal stories such as that of the couple of friends who gave her the opportunity to leave her job to dedicate herself to writing her novel, a cooking recipe, and profiles of Gregory Peck and Truman Capote, Lumen indicates in a statement.