9 Authors Who Got Famous Worldwide With One Book

It is not so easy to find, among many world-famous writers, those who hit the mark the first time and, even more, for a single time. But we decided to do some research, exercising our knowledge a little. At first, it was not suspected that the author of the novel Shantaram had his manuscript torn to shreds twice, just as we didn’t know that Anna Sewell, 150 years ago, drew attention to the mistreatment of animals.

we from awesome.club We think that many of these stories have the ability to inspire those who have been thinking about writing books for a while, but for some reason haven’t yet. But, as the saying goes, why not?

Margaret Mitchell decided to write the novel Gone with the Wind by chance. Due to an ankle injury, she found herself confined to bed indefinitely and, without many options, was reading book after book. John, her husband, would go to the nearest library to find new novels for her. When he got tired of hauling back and forth piles of literature, he suggested that his wife write her own work instead of reading hundreds of other authors.

Margaret wasn’t sure it would be worth typing all that work. According to one version, a young writer encouraged her to publish the manuscript. She was invited to Mitchell’s house and, during the conversation, needled the owner of the house, saying: “ah, that one will never write a book”. The novel, however, became a bestseller on the second day shortly after its publication, and in 1937, the writer received the Pulitzer Prize.

1816 is known as the year without a summer. Mary Shelley and her famous husband (the poet Percy Shelley) accepted Lord George Byron’s invitation to visit his rented villa.

“The summer was wet and cold,” Mary recalled, “the constant rain kept us indoors all day.”

The unwitting hostages of the weather spent days reading texts aloud and then opening a discussion about reading. One fine day they were talking about the experiments of Luigi Galvani, who electrocuted dead organisms, forcing them to “revive”. And it was then that Lord Byron proposed to each of his guests a little entertainment, that of writing a “supernatural story”, and then reading it aloud. Mary started to think about the story and the idea of ​​”Frankenstein” appeared in one of her dreams.

In 1978, when he was still far from being a writer, Gregory Roberts was arrested for committing a series of robberies. Two years after the sentence, he fled to Bombay where he lived 10 years of his life. And he was arrested again upon landing in Frankfurt. This time, Robert decided to start his life from scratch.

It was in prison that he began to write Shantaram, but twice had his manuscript torn to pieces by the jailers. In the second, Gregory said, “The only thing that can be done is to forgive the one who destroyed my life’s work.”

In 1997, Robert was released, and after a few years, the book was finally published. Today, the work has been translated into more than 40 languages. Despite his fame and recognition, the writer does not seek exposure with journalists, and explains his position by saying that his novel already speaks more than enough.

The American writer published his novel in 1997. In the preface, he wrote his acknowledgments: “I owe it to one specific person more than others. Mineko Iwasaki was the one who corrected my misconceptions about geisha life. Thank you for everything”.

When Memoirs of a Geisha was translated into Japanese, Mineko Iwasaki filed a lawsuit against Golden. According to the inquest, the writer violated the confidentiality agreement, mentioning her name and causing damage to her reputation. It turned out that Mrs. Iwasaki was a geisha in Kyoto, and in 1992 she participated in a major interview with Arthur Golden.

Mineko demanded that he remove her name from the preface and wrote in response to the autobiography My Life as a Geisha🇧🇷

In 1932, Zelda was in the Henry Phipps psychiatric hospital in Baltimore, and during a creative breath she wrote her entire novel in just 6 weeks. When Francis Scott Fitzgerald (writer and husband) learned that his wife had sent the manuscript to the publisher, he was furious.

As it turns out, the book was written based on Zelda’s personal diary entries, which the writer was already thinking of using in his new novel. Soft is the Night🇧🇷 He had done this before, and not just once, but changing the real names of the people listed to fictitious ones. After the publication of This waltz is mineScott called the work plagiarism and the woman a “writer of the third degree”.

When Anna was still at school, she had an accident and severely injured her ankle. During her entire life, she could not stand or walk without crutches. In order to have more comfort in her life, she rode in a horse-drawn carriage. And that’s how she started her love for these animals.

she started writing black diamond after turning 50 years of age. At that time, his health was very bad and, because of that, he had difficulty writing. So she dictated the text to her mother. Thanks to the publication of the novel, the public turned its attention to the recurring problem of mistreatment of horses.

In 1532, 39-year-old medical graduate François Rabelais published a book about the good gluttonous giant Pantagruel and his “terrifying and frightening” actions and exploits. Soon after, the second book came out. gargantua🇧🇷

Representatives of the Catholic Church condemned the novel for its satirical content and banned its printing, distribution and reading. Rabelais, who had written both parts under the pseudonym “Alcofribas Nasier” (in French, Alcofribas Nasier is an anagram of the name François Rabelais), openly began writing the third, and then the last two. Apparently, he must have followed the principle that “The best publicity is the propaganda itself”.

Harper Lee arrived in New York with the dream of becoming a great writer. In December 1956 she received a letter from friends, which contained a nice gift, which was a full year’s salary. On the envelope was a message: “You have a year of paid vacation to do whatever you want. Merry Christmas”. Within the agreed time frame, the draft manuscript was ready.

The recognition of the novel was a big surprise for the author: “I could never imagine such a great success. I was actually more looking forward to his quick and merciful death at the hands of the critics, but at the same time I thought: maybe someone will like this work enough to give me the courage to write more.”

A novel about African-American maids, who worked in white people’s homes in the early 1960s, and which was long rejected by publishers. Stockett wrote it for a long 5 years, and then it was rejected by numerous publishers (approximately 60) for 3 consecutive years. But, as Kathryn herself said in an interview with the The Guardianshe must be a very stubborn person, because when she heard “no” so many times, she just decided to insist more.

When Kathryn was living in Mississippi, they hired an African-American woman named Demetria to educate her. This later helped her to create the right tone and humor in the pages of her book, as well as to convey the appropriate style of speech to the heroines of the novel.

If you have any writers to add to this list, we’d be happy to add that knowledge to our selection. And enjoy and tell us: do you have any unpublished books in your trunk? Do you have the dream of showing it to the world?