{"id":22937,"date":"2015-02-11T08:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=22937"},"modified":"2015-02-06T15:18:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T21:18:10","slug":"one-hit-wonders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/one-hit-wonders\/","title":{"rendered":"One Hit Wonders"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"to<\/a>On February 3, 2015, the literary world was shocked to learn that Harper Lee would no longer be a One Hit Wonder. In July 2015, her second novel,\u00a0Go Set a Watchman,\u00a0<\/em>is scheduled to be\u00a0released.<\/p>\n

Go Set a Watchman<\/em> is the sequel of To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em><\/a> <\/strong>and\u00a0is set twenty years later. \u00a0An adult Scout Finch lives in New York and is back visiting her father, Atticus\u00a0Finch, in Maycomb, Alabama. According to the publisher, Scout “is forced to grapple with issues both personal and political as she tries to understand her father’s attitude toward society, and her own feelings about the place where she was born and spent her childhood.”<\/p>\n

While Harper Lee may be leaving the One Hit Wonder Club, that still leaves other authors that will remain in the One Hit Wonder Club forever.<\/p>\n

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\"wuthering\u00a0Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Wuthering Heights<\/em> was published in London in 1847 by Ellis Bell. \u00a0The passion and violence in the book led people to believe that a man wrote Wuthering Heights<\/em>. \u00a0Emily Bronte died of tuberculosis on December 19, 1848 at the age of thirty without knowing how popular her novel would become.<\/p>\n

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\"Black\u00a0Anna Sewell, Black Beauty<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

It took Anna six years to write Black Beauty<\/em>. \u00a0She was so sick while she wrote it that she dictated a lot of it to her mother. \u00a0Considered a children’s classic, Sewell wrote the book for people that worked with horses. \u00a0Sewell died on April 27, 1878 five months after her book had been published.<\/p>\n

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\"gwtw\"\u00a0Margaret Mitchell, Gone With The Wind<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

It took Margaret Mitchell three years to write her famous novel and it took an additional six years before she showed \u00a0it to anybody. \u00a0In 1936, Gone With the Wind<\/em> was published making Mitchell famous. \u00a0The movie release in 1939 \u00a0only heightened her fame.\u00a0Mitchell did not care for the spotlight which may be the reason she never wrote \u00a0a sequel. \u00a0In 1949, she was hit by a car and died five days later.<\/p>\n

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\"bell<\/p>\n

\u00a0Sylvia Plath,\u00a0The Bell Jar<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sylvia Plath was a published poet when she wrote her semi-autobiographical novel about mental illness. \u00a0In January 1963, The Bell Jar<\/em> was published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. \u00a0 Plath died less than a month later on February 11, 1963.<\/p>\n

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\"catcher\u00a0J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

J.D. Salinger had published several short stories but\u00a0The Catcher in The Rye <\/em>made him famous\u00a0in 1951. The attention made him reclusive and he published his short stories and novellas less frequently.\u00a0Salinger died of natural causes on January 27, 2010.<\/p>\n

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