They published early works of a number of writers before they were well known, including James Joyce's "Tales Told of Shem and Shaun" (which was later integrated into "Finnegans Wake"). They published Kay Boyle's first book-length work, "Short Stories", in 1929. and works by Hart Crane, D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, Archibald MacLeish, Ernest Hemingway, Laurence Sterne, and Eugene Jolas. The Black Sun Press evolved into one of the most important small presses in Paris in the 1920s. After Crosby died in a suicide pact with one of his many lovers, Caresse Crosby continued publishing into the 1940s.