DISCOVERED in the archives of the New York Public Library, these 14 stories provide an interesting insight into the teenage Capote, long before he penned classics like Other Voices, Other Rooms, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and In Cold Blood.

The reclusive author of To Kill a Mockingbird says she never gave her approval to a new memoir that portrays itself as a rare, intimate look into the lives of the writer and her older sister in small-town Alabama.