Author leaves legacy of unpublished work
NZPA-AP Los Angeles The Western novelist, Louis L’Amour,: is dead, but he may ride high on the best-seller lists for years thanks to unpublished and out-of-print work., J “We have a couple of full-;, length novels and we have some . (unpublished) shortstory , material and we have short story . material that was written for the pulps,” Kathy - Lflwnour, the author’s wife ' of 3®years, said
recently. * • ! . v ; ■ “So we’re-in good shape and we’ll have a publishing programme well into the ’9os,” L’Amour, a favorite of - the former United States President, Ronald Reagan, died of cancer in June, 1988, at age 80. ,The_ unpublished works : are , . from what he> called his’“toxic - .; dump” — piles of papers stacked <4 haphazardly on the flodK and / desk of his workroom.
“I took about seven days of randomly walking around and randomly sampling stuff to try and find if there was any order or not,”- said the author’s son Beau, aged 28. “After, that week I just decided there wasn’t anv • order.” .y •/, L’Amour’s “Education of a - Wandering•; Man,” published , a few weeks ago, is on the “New ; York Times” and the “Los | Angeles Times” bestseller lists ]
for hardcover nonfiction books. r He was proof-reading the memoir the day he died. It was his 105th published book, including 86 novels, 16 collections of short stories and : ; three non-fiction books. A hardcover book, “The Sackett Companion,” and two paperback collections of short stories, .“Lonigan” - and “Long Ride Mlome,” also have been published tjTince his death.
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