It is one of seven such posthumous novels, many of which were extensively edited by his son.

The Last and the First is Ivy Compton-Burnett's posthumous novel, published in 1971, two years after her death.

The same is true of her posthumous novel, "I'm Dying Laughing" (1987).

A Hollywood script doctor destroys another man's great film to further a personal agenda in this posthumous novel by the screenwriter of "Breaking Away."

In fact, Miss Andrews, who died in 1986, did not write "Dawn" - or four other posthumous novels published under her name.

Swayze, the young narrator of Morris's posthumous novel, "Taps," recounts a Mississippi place and time - the 1950's - with steady soulfulness.

There's the posthumous first novel - John Kennedy Toole's "Confederacy of Dunces," for example - that makes you wonder what might have been.

He edited a posthumous novel by William Faulkner, "Flags in the Dust."

"Uneven" is the word used most often to describe Ellison's posthumous second novel, which he had been working on for 40 years before he died.

The posthumous novel was published in 2002, a year after Ludlum's death.