The word archivist has appeared in 90 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on March 4 in “Stories by Harper Lee to Appear for the First Time in a New Collection” by Alexandra Alter. The article is about literary works Harper Lee wrote before she published her novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”:
She tried and failed to get them published. Scholars and biographers have long thought the stories were lost or destroyed.
But Lee was a meticulous archivist. She stashed the typescripts of the stories, along with the rejection letters, in her New York City apartment, where her executor discovered them after her death in 2016.
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