Did you know that Shakespeare wrote a play based on Don Quixote? That Hadley Hemingway lost a suitcase of her husband's unpublished short stories? That Lord Byron's memoir were destroyed by a publisher who thought them only "fit for the brothel?"
An article in this morning Journal runs through a catalog of such lost masterpieces. (Click here to read.) A search for (or discovery of) any one of them could provide a linchpin for a thriller, don't you think? No need to thank me now. Save it for the acknowledgments page of your book.
His publisher believed printing Byron's memoirs "would have damned Lord Byron to everlasting infamy."
I'm off to my attic now in search of inspiration. With my luck, I'll just find a bunch of cobwebs and some old window frames.
Posted by: Alan Orloff | April 20, 2009 at 12:39 PM
Alan, if you find any lost Shakespeare plays or Henigway short stories, let me know.
Posted by: Keith Raffel | April 20, 2009 at 01:22 PM