Allen Appel: Sea of Time (1988), unpublished novel in the published Alex Balfour Pastmaster series
L. Frank Baum: Our Married Life (1912), Johnson (1912), The Mystery of Bonita (1914) and Molly Oodle (1915). Reported in Katherine Rogers' L. Frank Baum: Creator of Oz and
Michael Patrick Hearn's The Annotated Wizard of Oz. According to Hearn, although not a published statement, The Mystery of Bonita is mentioned in contracts related to
The Oz Film Manufacturing Company. The others are noted on file folders that once contained them and correspondence recovered from the
Reilly & Lee offices, but the manuscripts themselves remain lost. The books were intended for adult readers and correspondence for the first of these, Our Married Life, indicates that, unlike his four published adult novels, he did not want these books to appear under a pseudonym.
Frank Joslyn Baum's biography of L. Frank, To Please a Child, claims that
Maud Gage Baum burned Baum's unpublished manuscripts; however, it is known that much of this biography was falsified after Frank J. and Maud's falling out (including Frank J. being dropped from Maud's will) over the rights to the Oz books.
Joan Collins: The Ruling Passion and Hell Hath No Fury, both in a legal battle with
Random House which Collins won in 1996
Henry Darger: In the Realms of the Unreal (totaling more than 15,000 pages) and Crazy House: Further Adventures in Chicago (totaling more than 10,000 pages). His History of My Life (began as nonfiction) totals more than 4600 pages.
Samuel R. Delany: Voyage, Orestes!, massive early
mimetic fiction novel, both manuscript copies lost; a small excerpt was found and published in 2019
Chuck Palahniuk: Insomnia: If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home Already
Frederik Pohl: For Some We Loved (1944), about New York advertising agencies; burned by author, who described it as "a long, complicated, and very bad novel"
J.D. Salinger: He continued writing through the last half-century of his long life, while he lived as a
recluse. This consists of as one or two unpublished novels and possibly more than fifteen.
Artie Shaw: The Education of Albie Snow, a semi-autobiographical 1000-page, three-volume work
V. T. Hamlin: The Man Who Walked with Dinosaurs (autobiography) and Four Rivers (fishing memoir)
JP Miller: A Ship Without a Shore, memoir of Miller's
WWII experiences aboard the aircraft carrier
USS Cabot
Fulton Oursler: autobiography in progress at the time of his death
Theodore Roosevelt: The Winning of the West: Roosevelt's series was originally meant to be at least six books. Due to the death of his first wife, Roosevelt edited the series to conclude at four volumes.
Kay Sage: China Eggs, a memoir of 1910–35, covering her family, childhood, travels, painting, life in
Italy, her marriage to Prince Ranieri di San Faustino and her friendship with
Ezra Pound.[9]
Yvette Vickers: autobiography in progress at the time of her death
Allen Appel: Sea of Time (1988), unpublished novel in the published Alex Balfour Pastmaster series
L. Frank Baum: Our Married Life (1912), Johnson (1912), The Mystery of Bonita (1914) and Molly Oodle (1915). Reported in Katherine Rogers' L. Frank Baum: Creator of Oz and
Michael Patrick Hearn's The Annotated Wizard of Oz. According to Hearn, although not a published statement, The Mystery of Bonita is mentioned in contracts related to
The Oz Film Manufacturing Company. The others are noted on file folders that once contained them and correspondence recovered from the
Reilly & Lee offices, but the manuscripts themselves remain lost. The books were intended for adult readers and correspondence for the first of these, Our Married Life, indicates that, unlike his four published adult novels, he did not want these books to appear under a pseudonym.
Frank Joslyn Baum's biography of L. Frank, To Please a Child, claims that
Maud Gage Baum burned Baum's unpublished manuscripts; however, it is known that much of this biography was falsified after Frank J. and Maud's falling out (including Frank J. being dropped from Maud's will) over the rights to the Oz books.
Joan Collins: The Ruling Passion and Hell Hath No Fury, both in a legal battle with
Random House which Collins won in 1996
Henry Darger: In the Realms of the Unreal (totaling more than 15,000 pages) and Crazy House: Further Adventures in Chicago (totaling more than 10,000 pages). His History of My Life (began as nonfiction) totals more than 4600 pages.
Samuel R. Delany: Voyage, Orestes!, massive early
mimetic fiction novel, both manuscript copies lost; a small excerpt was found and published in 2019
Chuck Palahniuk: Insomnia: If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home Already
Frederik Pohl: For Some We Loved (1944), about New York advertising agencies; burned by author, who described it as "a long, complicated, and very bad novel"
J.D. Salinger: He continued writing through the last half-century of his long life, while he lived as a
recluse. This consists of as one or two unpublished novels and possibly more than fifteen.
Artie Shaw: The Education of Albie Snow, a semi-autobiographical 1000-page, three-volume work
V. T. Hamlin: The Man Who Walked with Dinosaurs (autobiography) and Four Rivers (fishing memoir)
JP Miller: A Ship Without a Shore, memoir of Miller's
WWII experiences aboard the aircraft carrier
USS Cabot
Fulton Oursler: autobiography in progress at the time of his death
Theodore Roosevelt: The Winning of the West: Roosevelt's series was originally meant to be at least six books. Due to the death of his first wife, Roosevelt edited the series to conclude at four volumes.
Kay Sage: China Eggs, a memoir of 1910–35, covering her family, childhood, travels, painting, life in
Italy, her marriage to Prince Ranieri di San Faustino and her friendship with
Ezra Pound.[9]
Yvette Vickers: autobiography in progress at the time of her death