One would dredge up a little-known writer or work only to find that another recognized it.

As a publicity stunt, one little-known writer last year persuaded Seagram to sponsor a satiric novel that happened to involve Scotch.

Bayley's other trick is to introduce us to difficult or little-known writers through more familiar ones.

He was otherwise a little-known writer, and his authorship of the forgery is his only modern notability.

Everyone seemed to be bitten by the bug; in 1909 Dublin's first movie house was established by a little-known writer named James Joyce.

Q: The songs on your album are mostly by little-known writers.

In 1896 there was scant interest in stories by a little-known writer, especially one whose prose was described as "delicate and fine."

This was toward the end of the 80's, when other little-known Scottish writers were beginning to get their work published in small literary magazines.

From 1977, she published works by little-known writers.

So far, additions to the list have mostly been obscure political tracts, like the treatise on "People's War" by a little-known South African writer.