Top 10 Writers known for only 1 book

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Gaston Leroux for The Phantom of the Opera

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Oliver J Lane 9 years ago

Leroux is called the French Arthur Conan Doyle due to his book The Mystery of the Yellow Room, a perfect example of the lock door genre.

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Top 10 Writers known for only 1 book

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Mary Shelley for Frankenstein

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Oliver J Lane 9 years ago

Her life is about tragedy with the loss of 3 of her 4 children, her husband Percy Shelley's death and the fact she wrote cheap stories to support herself and her only surviving child

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Boris Pasternak for Dr Zhivago

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Oliver J Lane 9 years ago

He won the Nobel Prize but Soviet Russia forced him to turn it down as Dr Zhivago was critical of the Soviet Union

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Bram Stoker for Dracula

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Oliver J Lane 9 years ago

The only other story that Stoker is known for is The Lair of the White Worm which was rewritten for the film that Ken Russell made of it in 1988 to make sense

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Dodie Smith for The Hundred and One Dalmatians

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Oliver J Lane 9 years ago

Also she wrote a sequel to this famous story The Starlight Barking which Cruella De Vil isn't the villain but is given a cameo

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Henry James for The Turn of the Screw

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Oliver J Lane 9 years ago

Turn of the Screw has been made into several films including The Innocents and a Opera by Benjamin Britten

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Antoine de Saint-Exup?ry for The Little Prince

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Oliver J Lane 9 years ago

Despite the sweetness of this children's classic, The Little Prince's writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery wrote mainly autobiographies of his Aviation life and mainly about flying in his Fiction

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