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*[[Barry Brown (actor)|Barry Brown]]: ''Unsung Heroes of the Horrors'', interview profiles of actors |
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*[[Buff Cobb]]: ''Memoirs of a Subdeb in Hollywood'' |
*[[Buff Cobb]]: ''Memoirs of a Subdeb in Hollywood'' |
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*Colin Dawkins: ''Ain't It Hell on a Windy Day'' (1981), history of advertising with emphasis on [[JWT|J. Walter Thompson]] |
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*[[John Howard Griffin]]: ''Scattered Shadows'', memoir about the author's blindness |
*[[John Howard Griffin]]: ''Scattered Shadows'', memoir about the author's blindness |
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*[[V. T. Hamlin]]: ''The Man Who Walked with Dinosaurs'' (autobiography) and ''Four Rivers'' (fishing memoir) |
*[[V. T. Hamlin]]: ''The Man Who Walked with Dinosaurs'' (autobiography) and ''Four Rivers'' (fishing memoir) |
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Revision as of 09:36, 15 February 2012
Unpublished novels
- Sholem Aleichem: Mottel the Cantor's son, left unfinished at the time of his death.
- Charles Alverson: The Word, Caleb and Lost in Austin
- Allen Appel: Sea of Time (1988), unpublished novel in the published Alex Balfour Pastmaster series
- L. Frank Baum: Our Married Life (1912), Johnson (1912), The Mystery of Bonita (1914), and Molly Oodle (1915). Reported in Katherine Rogers's L. Frank Baum: Creator of Oz and Michael Patrick Hearn's The Annotated Wizard of Oz. According to Hearn, although not a published statement, The Mystery of Bonita is mentioned in contracts related to The Oz Film Manufacturing Company. The others are noted on file folders that once contained them and correspondence recovered from the Reilly & Lee offices, but the manuscripts themselves remain lost. The books were intended for adult readers, and correspondence for the first of these, Our Married Life, indicates that, unlike his four published adult novels, he did not want these books to appear under a pseudonym. Frank Joslyn Baum's biography of L. Frank, To Please a Child, claims that Maud Gage Baum burned Baum's unpublished manuscripts; however, it is known that much of this biography was falsified after Frank J. and Maud's falling out (including Frank J. being dropped from Maud's will) over the rights to the Oz books.
- Mildred Benson: The Runaway Sea Lion (1964)
- Amy Bishop: three novels, including The Martian Experiment (aka If Bullets Were Gold) and Amazon Fever[1][2]
- Ray Bradbury: According to Sam Weller's authorized biography of Bradbury, four chapters were dropped from The Martian Chronicles before publication and remain unpublished: "They All Had Grandfathers", "The Disease", "The Fathers" and "The Wheel".
- Richard Brautigan: The God of the Martians
- Harold Brodkey: A Party of Animals, a 2000-page manuscript in 1976 later published in a different form[3]
- Louise Brooks: Naked on My Goat, autobiographical novel
- James Brown: A Fine Madness, a novel which Brown says "never found a publisher"
- Charles Bukowski: The Poet
- James M. Cain: The Cocktail Waitress, novel about a political scandal (announced for 2012 publication)
- Michael Chabon: Fountain City, abandoned after 1,500 pages but then inspired Chabon's Wonder Boys
- Chris Claremont: Tom Corbett, Space Cadet
- Joan Collins: The Ruling Passion and Hell Hath No Fury, both in a legal battle with Random House which Collins won in 1996
- Philip K. Dick: A Time for George Stavros and Nicholas and the Higs, both lost manuscripts
- Lee Duncan: rough draft autobiography by trainer of Rin Tin Tin
- Dave English: The World Does Not Change (1970)
- Ken Grimwood: Untitled sequel to Replay, in progress at the time of his death, and a collaboration with Tom Atwill
- Larry Hama: Eamon Diaz and the Vampire Queen
- Donald Hamilton: The Dominators
- V. T. Hamlin: The Devil's Daughter
- Thomas Hardy: The Poor Man and the Lady, Hardy's first novel (1867); rejected by five publishers and ms. later destroyed
- Stephen King: The Aftermath (1963 novella) and The House on Value Street (1970s novel based on the Patty Hearst kidnapping)
- Jonathan Lethem: Heroes, 125-page novel which he wrote while in high school
- Karl Marx: Scorpion and Felix, an unpublished and now fragmentary comedic novel (1837)
- Hugh MacLennan: So All Their Praises and A Man Should Rejoice
- Marilyn Manson: Holy Wood
- Chuck Palahniuk: Insomnia: If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home Already
- Edgar Allan Poe: The Light-House
- Frederik Pohl: For Some We Loved (1944), about New York advertising agencies; burned by author, who described it as "a long, complicated, and very bad novel"
- Quentin Rowan: Curious Clover, a 2009 graphic novel about horse breeders
- Artie Shaw: The Education of Albie Snow, a semi-autobiographical 1000-page, three-volume work
- C. P. Snow: 1950-51 novel deleted from the Strangers and Brothers series[4]
- William Styron: The Way of the Warrior, a much-revised World War II novel
- Taylor Swift: 350-page novel
- Hunter S. Thompson: Prince Jellyfish
- Kurt Vonnegut: If God Were Alive Today, unfinished novel about a wisecracking lecturer to college students
- Evelyn Waugh: The Temple at Thatch, destroyed by Waugh
- Doodles Weaver: Golden Spike
- Edith Wharton: Literature
- Charles Willeford: Grimhaven, sequel to Miami Blues
- Jerry Yulsman: Gotham, in progress at the time of his death
Unpublished nonfiction
- F. Lee Bailey: Memoir about his defense of Patty Hearst
- Calvin Beck: Sense of Wonder, survey of 1940s fantasy films
- Barry Brown: Unsung Heroes of the Horrors, interview profiles of actors
- Buff Cobb: Memoirs of a Subdeb in Hollywood
- Colin Dawkins: Ain't It Hell on a Windy Day (1981), history of advertising with emphasis on J. Walter Thompson
- John Howard Griffin: Scattered Shadows, memoir about the author's blindness
- V. T. Hamlin: The Man Who Walked with Dinosaurs (autobiography) and Four Rivers (fishing memoir)
- Adolf Hitler: Zweites Buch ("Second Book"), a sequel to Mein Kampf
- JP Miller: A Ship Without a Shore, memoir of Miller's WWII experiences aboard the aircraft carrier USS Cabot
- Fulton Oursler: Autobiography in progress at the time of his death
- Theodore Roosevelt: The Winning of the West: Roosevelt's series was originally meant to be more at least six books. However, due to the death of his first wife and the necessity to reflect because of it, Roosevelt edited the series to conclude at four volumes.
- Yvette Vickers: Autobiography in progress at the time of her death
- Fredric Wertham: The War on Children
References
- ^ Irons, Meghan E. "Bishop’s novel offers insight into her thoughts," Boston Globe, February 18, 2010.
- ^ "'If Bullets Were Gold': Is This Sci-Fi Novel the Work of a Killer Professor?" Gawker
- ^ Smith, Dinitia. "Harold Brodkey and His (Great) Unpublished Novel," New York, September 19, 1988
- ^ Snow, C. P. "Character Sketches from an Unpublished Novel"