For 55 years, Harper Lee had been one of the best-known literary one hit wonders: she won the Pulitzer prize for her only published novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. But now the 88-year-old has revealed that she will publish a second novel this summer, which she technically wrote before To Kill a Mockingbird and which even inspired her only book to date.

　　55年来，哈珀·李的名作一直只有那部使得获得普利策奖的《杀死一只知更鸟》。而现已88岁的她最近表示今年夏天要发表第二部小说，即将出版的第二部小说实际上写于《杀死一只知更鸟》之前，且为这部名作的书写提供了不少灵感。

　　But Lee leaves a number of literary one-hit wonders behind her. Here are a few of the best:

　　和之前的哈珀·李一样，很多著名作家因一书而成名，且一生只出版了这一部小说。

　　1. Margaret Mitchell - Gone With The Wind (1936)

　　1. 玛格丽特·米切尔--《乱世佳人》(1936)

　　Published in 1936, the sweeping tale of Scarlett O'Hara and the dashing Rhett Butler was an instant success. Mitchell, a writer for her local Atlanta newspaper, won the Pulitzer Prize and saw her debut novel turned into a Hollywood epic.

　　小说于1936年发表后，斯嘉丽和瑞德的故事立刻横扫全球，获得了巨大的成功。小说作者米切尔不仅获得了普利策奖，还见证了自己的首部出版小说被搬上荧屏成为了好莱坞的经典。

　　Mitchell hated fame and declared that she would not write another word as long as she lived. She died in a road accident in 1949. In 1995, an unpublished manuscript she had written as a teenager was discovered. It was published the following year as Lost Laysen, a romantic novella set in the South Pacific.

　　米切尔是个不喜名誉的人，她宣称在有生之年不再写任何东西。1949年她死于一场车祸。1995年，她写于青少年时期的一份未经发表的手稿被发现，次年这部描写南天平洋一个小岛上的爱情故事的名为《失去的莱松岛》的短片故事被发表。

　　2. Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Grey (1890)

　　2.奥斯卡·王尔德--《道林·格雷的画像》(1980)

　　While Wilde built a career of writing poetry and plays, his arguably most controversial work was his only published novel. At the end of the 19th century its narrative of obsession, murder and hedonism offended Victorian society, with critics dubbing The Picture of Dorian Grey everything from "effeminate" to "unclean". Perhaps it rubbed off: Wilde never wrote another novel again.

　　王尔德以诗歌和戏剧创作闻名，而他最受争议的也是他唯一出版的小说。十九世纪末，这部小说中对痴恋、谋杀及享乐主义的记叙与当时的社会格格不入，评论者对《道林·格雷的画像》批评从“女人气”到“不纯洁”。或许是因为这些批评，王尔德之后再没写过任何一部小说。