I don't call recall the name of the guy, but there's this
professor whose speciality is identifying the authors of
unknown works. He ID's William Shakespeare as the author of a
eulogy once based in part on what Will cannibalized from his
writing. I don't have a list of names or works handy, but
this is pretty much standard from what I've read in
literature so why wouldn't mystery authors do it to?
Actually, one example comes to mind is Raymond Chandler (or
was it Dashiel Hammett)? I've introductions that comment on
how such and such a short story was turned into such and such
a novel.
A writer data mines within their own body of work ... so
what?
Anthony
----- Original Message ----- From: "George Upper" <
gcupper3@yahoo.com> To: <
rara-avis@icomm.ca>
> --- Graham Powell <
bleekerbooks@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Didn't Block cannibalize "By Dawn's Early
Light"
> > into "When The Sacred
> > Ginmill Closes"?
>
> Yes, Block did do that. I don't think, however,
that
> he actually published the short story until after
the
> novel came out. I could be wrong about that, but
it
> seems to me that I read something to that effect
in
> the intro to one of his short story
collections.
>
> Incidentally, any fan of HB material who has not
read
> Block is really missing out.
-- # To unsubscribe from the regular list, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to # majordomo@icomm.ca. This will not work for the digest version. # The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 10 Jul 2001 EDT