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When families disagree about an unpublished writer's legacy

My father wrote prolifically his whole life but never published anything and now that he's gone my mom wants to just donate everything to charity but I feel like we owe it to his memory to at least try to get some of his work out there.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Grief and different relationships to a deceased writer's work create competing visions of how to honor someone's creative life.

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