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Murasaki Shikibu is the best known writer to emerge from Japan's glorious Heian period. Her novel, The Tale of Genji (Genji-monogatari) is considered to be one of the world's finest and earliest novels. Some argue that Murasaki is the world's first modern novelist.
The term one-hit wonder doesnât apply to this list of talented authors who, for a number of reasons, completed only one novel in their lifetime. These one-novel authors are Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winners, authors of timeless classic novels and creators of some of the most memorable characters in literature. Here is our list of seven famous authors who only wrote one novel in the lifetime. A bookâs total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book.