Publishing your books is the natural desire of every writer, but not everyone can do it while they are still alive. Recognition is the dream of all those who write, but sometimes, when it comes, it is already impossible to enjoy it. Therefore, here are some super famous works, whose authors could not take advantage of the recognition of their work.
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3 books published after the writers' deaths
Through books, authors have the opportunity to tell real and fictional stories capable of touching the whole world, however, not everyone manages to show their works to the world. However, did you know that many times some authors have their books published after their death?
Therefore, for those who dream of being writers, it is never too late to do so, after all, it is enough for the document to exist and it may be published someday. See here some examples of authors who only managed to show their works to the world after their death.
“The Diary of Anne Frank” by Anne Frank (1947)
The book "The Diary of Anne Frank" is certainly the most famous on this list. Based on a diary that Anne wrote when she was 13, the book tells her and her family's experiences as Jewish refugees in Amsterdam, hiding from the Nazis.
Her diary has the stories of 2 years, until one day she heard it on the radio so that whoever had a diary would keep it so that it would be possible to record the memories of that period of war. The last page of the book was written three days before his family was arrested, but it was found by one of Otto's secretaries, her father, one of the few survivors of the family, who received his daughter's original version and published it two years after her death.
“Northanger Abbey” and “Sanditon” by Jane Austen (1817 and 1925)
The book was the author's first to be accepted by a publisher, in 1799, but it was only published in 1817, shortly after her death.
When Jane Austen died, she was writing a book that was not published until more than a century after her death, "Sanditon", published in 1925.
Millenium series, by Stieg Larsson (2005-2019)
In the year 2002, the first book in the Millenium series began to be written by Stieg Larsson, the subject of the series. was violence against women and none of the books managed to be published before 2004, the year in which Stieg died.
The planning of the series was to contain 10 books, however, he only managed to write 3. The first is "The Men Who Didn't Love Women", the second is "The Girl Who Played With Fire" and the last, "The Queen of the Air Castle". The books were so successful that they were adapted for the cinema.
