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Q&A How significant a role have editors played on books published in the past?

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 Húri...

posted 7y ago by Lauren Ipsum‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#2: Initial revision by (deleted user) · 2019-12-08T06:38:59Z (almost 5 years ago)
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 Húrin_ 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,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Set_a_Watchman) 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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