Although Manning Marable may not have succeeded in writing a definitive work, his considerable scholarship does remind us how much is elided by any tale of a pilgrim's progress.
Hitler was unique in writing a major political work before he came to power, and then continuing to issue that same work throughout the lifespan of the Third Reich.
In 1858, before the arrival of Wallace's letter, Darwin was knee-deep in writing a massive, multi-volume work entitled Natural Selection.
Vanessa Lann, an American who lives in The Hague, wrote a work in which technical toughness is combined with subtle visual imagery.
In 1929, he wrote a work on traditional Beti society in which he tried to hide his unremarkable childhood by taking the title of "King" and claiming descent from a fictitious line of Ewondo royalty.
Asked by the BBC in the early 1960s to write a work in the classical-jazz hybrid referred to, often derogatorily, as third stream, Mr. Bennett instead wrote a pure jazz piece, "Jazz Calendar".
Yet Mr. Crawford makes a memorable impression in the show's catalog, where each artist has been given several pages to use in any way: write a work, invite others to write, reproduce photographs or graphics.
At least two Stoics in this period wrote a work on Aristotle's Categories.
His interest in numbers (he wrote a work on numbers), to which he assigns an ontological role (fr. 2.20-24) may well be for him another Pythagorean doctrine that Plato had taken over (see Staab 2002, 99 100).
He managed a recovery by 1955 and was placed on the staff of the Palace Museum in Beijing, about which he wrote a work of nonfiction in 1957.
