Already considering her works-in-progress "posthumous," she jotted this entry in her notebook: "Try to do as many discussions and things as possible... that may interest people in '52 or 2052".
When it comes to records of enduring relationships between creative near-equals, the glacially slow progress of gender equality in the arts and of posthumous candour in life-writing combine to squeeze the field even tighter.
Merton was gone before his time, but his life had a third half in which he accompanied his readers imaginatively — his relative youth, his sudden death in a distant land, and a steady run of posthumous publications made us feel that his pilgrimage was still in progress.
Merton was gone before his time, but his life had a third half in which he accompanied his readers imaginatively—his relative youth, his sudden death in a distant land, and a steady run of posthumous publications made us feel that his pilgrimage was still in progress.
Geisel's other two posthumous books, My Many Colored Days and Gerald McBoing Boing, were also works in progress when he died.
Masato Nakae (posthumous), Shinyei Nakamine (posthumous), William Nakamura (posthumous), Joe Nishimoto (posthumous), Allan Ohata, Yukio Okutsu, Frank Ono (posthumous), Kazuo Otani (posthumous), George Sakato, Ted Tanouye (posthumous) and Francis Wai (posthumous).
Wilde foresaw his posthumous triumph.
Both were also posthumous.
He regularly read from this endless work in progress at open-mike nights, had even had a few of the poems published in double-digit-circulation pamphlets and once reputable, now posthumous journals.
