A Dozen Favorite One-Book Writers
(Here, in alphabetical order, are twelve of my favorite writers with only one book to their credit. I’ve tried to be as strict as possible with my definitions—so Harper Lee is not a one-book writer, John Kennedy Toole is not a one-book writer—but I have included, with asterisks, a few writers who are alive and might produce a second book but who haven’t yet, provided their first book was published prior to 2000.)
Alessandro Boffa* (You’re an Animal, Viskovitz!, 1998)
Cynthia Buchanan* (Maiden, 1972)
G. B. Edwards (The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, 1981)
Félix Fénéon (Novels in Three Lines, 1906)
Jean Ferry (The Conductor and Other Tales, 1950)
Ben Fry (Toys of Desperation, 2017)
Chris Fuhrman (The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, 1994)
Leonard Gardner* (Fat City, 1969)
Mendal W Johnson (Let’s Go Play at the Adams’, 1974)
Barbara Molinard (Panics, 1669)
Stephanie Vaughn* (Sweet Talk: Stories, 1990)
Robert Warshow (The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theater and Other Aspects of Popular Culture, 1962)
— October 2, 2022