Which authors made their reputation with just one book?

Answer 1

Harper Lee with To Kill a Mockingbird, Mary Shelley with Frankenstein, John Knowles with A Separate Peace (though he wrote others, none nearly as known)

Answer 2

Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
E bronte -- Wuthering Heights
C Darwin -- On The Origin Of Species
B Stoker -- Dracula
M Mitchell -- Gone With The Wind
J Tolkien -- The Lord Of The RingsC
Dr A Kinsey -- well, doesn't count, he had two fam books))
K Kesey -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
J Heller -- Catch-22
R bach -- Jonathan Livingston Seagull
McCullough -- The Thorn Birds
S Rushdie -- The Satanic Verses
A Garland -- The Beach
T Harris -- well, thats trilogy....

hmm... Dan Brown?? what kind of reputation hes made?

Jack London's White Fang & Salinger's Catcher in the Rye isnt even thier best books!!!!

Answer 3

J D Salinger is most well known for writing Catcher In The Rye.

Jerome David Salinger (born January 1, 1919) is an American author best known for The Catcher in the Rye, a classic novel that has enjoyed enduring popularity since its publication in 1951. A major theme in Salinger's work is the strong yet delicate mind of "disturbed" adolescents, and the redemptive capacity of children in the lives of such young men.

Answer 4

JRR Tolkein - okay so it was 2 but I tend to think of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings as the same thing!

Mind you, do you mean authors who only wrote one book (eg Anne Frank), only one book is well known (eg Salinger), or their first book made their reputation (eg Rowling)?

Answer 5

Harriet Beecher Stowe, who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, became famous with this best selling book that helped kick start the Civil War in America

Answer 6

Jack London- White Fang

Answer 7

Joseph Heller - Catch 22.

Not only a magnificent book but also coined a phrase commonly used throughout the world.

Answer 8

J.D. Salinger - Catcher in the Rye, Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin, John Milton - Paradise Lost, Virgil - Aeneid. There are tons more, but can't think of any.

Answer 9

Margaret Mitchell

Answer 10

Mitis Green with The Ardly Effect
on www.amazon.co.uk