Philip Zaleski is author of Prayer: A History and of a forthcoming book on J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis and the Inklings, both written with his wife, Carol Zaleski.
In his iconoclastic Autobiography (1883), Anthony Trollope recalled speculating, during a sea voyage to Australia, about the fate of his unpublished manuscripts if his ship were to founder en route:
I do not know how many posthumous books the public would receive from an author’s pen, one after the other, when the author had long be
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