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The one-lit wonders; Taking a stand: Gregory Peck in To Kill A Mockingbird. Inset: The novel by Harper Lee.

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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20080103
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Byline: Charles Legge

The one-lit wonders

QUESTION

Harper Lee published only a single, highly successful book, To Kill AMockingbird. Are there any other literary one-hit wonders?

ALTHOUGH he is most famous for his plays and poems, and although he wrote shortstories, fairy-tales and a novella, Oscar Wilde produced just one novel: ThePicture Of Dorian Gray. Another poet, Boris Pasternak, achieved the same featwith Dr Zhivago.

Winston Churchill won a Nobel Prize for his non-fiction work, but produced asole fictional work, Savrola, in 1900. Emily Bronte also ...

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