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Originally Posted by BetterRed
Most of Franz Kafka's works were published after his death, and translated even later. IIRC all of Irène Némirovsky's works were translated after her death, the book for which she's best known, Suite française, was published 60 years after her death (in Auschwitz). More recently all of Stieg Larsson's novels, e.g. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, were published after his death. Most of the poetry written by Sylvia Plath and Emily Dickinson was published posthumously.
One might say: if an author's work gets published posthumously it probably indicates they're worth reading  |
There's also the odd case of V.C. Andrews. She died after maybe half a dozen books, but her family presumably liked the money and hired a ghostwriter to keep making books under her name.
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Originally Posted by compurandom
I know of one author that stipulated in his will that all his unfinished manuscripts and hard drives be burned on his death.
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Terry Prachett did that. I think they ran over his hard drive with a steamroller.