Well known authors that were One Hit Wonders

[speedymama]

The only ones I can think of are

Harper Lee - To Kill a Mocking Bird
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
Margaret Mitchell (?) - Gone with the Wind

Any others?

Donna Tartt with "The Secret History". Until she got off her lazy behind and wrote "The Little Friend", anyway.

Thackeray

Nabokov (did write other books but they were just wank, as opposed to being actually evil like Lolita)

Agree with donnie, by the way. Bronte's poetry is still regular university-grade reading. It might not make the best-seller lists these days, but it's important literature.

What? Ada was lovely! I couldn't manage to read Lolita (evil, as you say), but Ada is a great great book.

Oh, OK. I read Glory and Pale Fire, both were turgid, rambling and peppered with little snippets of the sort of pointless cruelty Lolita revels in.

I don't think much of Nabokov, can you tell?

I couldn't stand Lolita, I could see it was well done, but ... ugh. Ada really is beautiful and lovely and lyrical and great. I swear.

Clark Kent - good list, you pedantic thing you

How about this for an obscure spot? It was a bestseller of its time...

Walpole - The Castle of Otranto