Doyle's handwritten final draft of his short novel, the oldest surviving complete Sherlock Holmes manuscript, was expected to sell for $250,000 to $350,000.

The first draft of Lawrence's novel is now lost and was never completed, which seems to be directly due to his mother's illness.

In 2009 he also completed the first draft of his third novel, which was temporary entitled "MM", and was working on two other projects.

Hamid wrote the first draft of his first novel for a fiction workshop taught by Morrison.

By the late summer of 1918, he had completed a draft of his first novel.

By 1999, he had completed a draft of his novel.

She read 356 books on the subject and wrote five drafts of her novel, meticulously counting the hours she worked: 4,967.

This story was written just after the author completed the first draft of his second novel.

During his enlistment, he wrote a draft of his first novel, which was published in 1948.

Later she began allowing them to read the drafts of her new novel, Atlas Shrugged, as the manuscript pages were written.