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* [[F Scott Fitzgerald]] died before finishing ''The Last Tycoon''. It was finished from his notes and published the next year, in 1941.
* Ian Fleming's final [[James Bond]] novel, ''[[The Man With the Golden Gun]]'', is regarded as unsatisfying by many fans. It was the draft he had completed at the time of his death, and lacks many of the characteristic "Fleming" touches he would have added with subsequent revisions. Perhaps because of this, over the years a myth arose that noted author Kingsley Amis actually completed the book, but this has since been debunked (Amis did however go on to write the first post-Fleming Bond novel, Colonel Sun, under the pen name Robert Markham). It has also been suggested that the draft published was indeed Fleming's final approved draft.
* [[David Foster Wallace]] committed suicide when his antidepressant meds lost their effectiveness and his depression became severe. He left his last novel ''The Pale King'' unfinished. It will be published in its current state in 2011. For several years before his death, Wallace published fragments of ''The Pale King'' as stand-alone short stories in several magazines. Given that Wallace's [[Infinite Jest|previous novel]] was a [[
* C.S. Forester died in the middle of yet another [[Horatio Hornblower]] story, ''Hornblower and the Crisis''. It, too, was published by [[The Powers That Be]], along with the author's notes on finishing it.
* Historian Douglas Southall Freeman both exemplifies and averts this trope. He sent out the sixth volume of his biography of George Washington to the publishers on the day he died. Alas, there was a seventh volume (later written by J. A. Carroll and M. W. Ashworth) yet to be completed.
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