From the Telegraph, a survey of authors whose lost manuscripts get published after their death:
Sometimes posthumous publication is controversial, because no one can be sure that the author wanted the work to see the light of day. This includes Tolstoy’s The Living Corpse, Jack Kerouac’s first novel The Sea Is My Brother and Dr Seuss’s Daisy-Head Mayzie. Robert Heinlein tried to destroy all copies of his first novel, For Us, The Living, but made the mistake of leaving a manuscript in a friend’s garage. Mark Twain told his brother to “shove a letter in the stove” because he didn’t want any “absurd literary remains” published after he was “planted”. But 99 years later a collection of unpublished essays and stories came out. Vladimir Nabokov’s son defied the wishes of his father to bring out The Original of Laura. And Douglas Adams’s The Salmon of Doubt, put together from scraps of writing he left behind, led some fans to think it was clearly stuff he would not have wanted subjected to public scrutiny.
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