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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Garden of Eden. Papa Hemingway's pal F. Scott Fitzergald's The Last Tycoon hit bookstores about a year after his death, while a seemingly endless list of Middle Earth tales, starting with The Silmarillion have been apportioned out over the past thirty years by J.R.R. Tolkien's son and literary executor, Christopher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Posthumous Literature | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...Sylvia Plath's most affecting, well-known works came out, Ariel, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Collected Poems. John Kennedy Toole's Southern gothic tragicomedy A Confederacy of Dunces was unpublished and gathering dust until Toole's mother put it in the hands of Walker Percy years after her son's suicide. The 2008 publication in English of Stieg Larsson's critically acclaimed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo came four years after he passed on. And let's not even talk about Roberto Bolano, whose 2666 was all the rage late last year - his 2003 death prominently mentioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Posthumous Literature | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...fair to say that a similar response will greet the publication of Nabokov's The Original of Laura, should it come out this November as expected. The problem is that Nabokov never wanted the book to be released in the first place; in his will, he'd instructed his son and executor Dmitri to destroy the manuscript. Dmitiri does not seem to be inclined to obey, setting off a debate over which is more important - an author's last wishes or the pull of literary posterity. Will next year's tentative release of David Foster Wallace's novel The Pale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Posthumous Literature | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...During sophomore year, I didn’t pay a visit... [so] I’m glad that I am here now to be supportive of my son,” said Ilryong Moon ’81—father of Joonyoung E.M. Moon ’10—while attending a meeting for the Asian American Christian Fellowship...

Author: By Jessica Choi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Junior Parents Pay Campus Visit | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

...What makes Hassanzade's success so amazing, however, is how it grew from virtually nothing. The son of Afghan shepherds who fled to Pakistan in 2005, Hassanzade was 14 when his parents, determined to give their son a better, more peaceful life, paid smugglers to bring him to France in 2006. Once there, he was abandoned on the streets of Lille by the same people who were supposed to help get him settled in Europe. Despite having little money and knowing no French, the new arrival managed to communicate his dilemma with passersby, and eventually wound up in a children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghan Boxer Wins French Citizenship | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

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