: Re: How significant a role have editors played on books published in the past? I am an editor having difficulties dealing with the representative of an author's literary estate about an unpublished

Two examples spring to mind, neither exactly your situation:

Christopher Tolkien did work on his father's oeuvre, but that's more curation than editing. He did cobble together The Children of HÃºrin from pieces, but that isn't quite your situation.

A more recent but negative exampe is Go Set a Watchman. Harper Lee is reportedly no longer mentally competent, and various parties, including a lawyer and an agent, found and developed an early manuscript of Lee's until it was a fully-standing novel. While the publisher originally tried to present it as a prequel to To Kill a Mockingbird, critics soon determined it was a rough draft of that novel rather than a separate story set before it. Watchman presents Atticus Finch as racist rather than the equality-supporting man he is in Mockingbird, which deeply upset many readers.

(In your particular case, since you edited this writer's work when he was alive, I think you should have more say, but that's neither here nor there.)

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