To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee centres on Atticus Finch’s attempts to prove the innocence of Tom Robinson, a black man who has been wrongly accused of raping a white woman in 1930s Alabama.

Essays and early short stories by “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee will be published this fall. "The Land of Sweet Forever" compiles short fiction Lee wrote in the years before the 1960 ...