Friday, March 20, 2009
Ten Literary One-Hit Wonders
The Times Online notes those novelists in which one book was quite good enough, like Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and Anna Sewell's Black Beauty.
About Sewell...
Anna Sewell's mother was a children's author but Sewell began her first novel aged 51. Black Beauty took six years to write and was intended, Sewell said, to encourage humane treatment of horses. She died in 1878, five months after its publication.
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