# "One-Shot" Great Authors **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 3, 2003, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-shot-great-authors/199418 "2003-09-03T22:29:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![slipster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@slipster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slipster)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-shot-great-authors/199418/41 "2003-09-04T19:24:11Z")
Thomas Heggen also wrote **Ensign Pulver**. Grace Metallious also wrote **Return to Peyton Place**. **The Minds of Billy Milligan** , an account of a man who evaded conviction by claiming to have multiple personalities, is a true story. On the other hand, the claim about having twenty four distinct personalities, I strongly suspect, isn’t. I think it’s interesting that the first reviewer I found cited in a Google search was Flora Rheta Schreiber, author of **Sibyl**. Though it got very little attention, it later came out that the real-life Sibyl had a simple eating disorder. The colorful accounts of her multiple personalities were a product of her therapist’s hypnotic techniques. ---
**Author:** ![slipster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@slipster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slipster)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-shot-great-authors/199418/42 "2003-09-04T19:29:26Z")
Carson McCullers also wrote **Reflections in a Golden Eye**. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-shot-great-authors/199418/43 "2003-09-04T19:44:32Z")
Did William “Billy” Hayes write anything besides the prison epic _Midnight Express_? I’m thinking “no”. ---
**Author:** ![toque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9e8a1a/32.png) [@toque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toque)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-shot-great-authors/199418/44 "2003-09-04T19:49:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by slipster \* > \*\*Carson McCullers also wrote **Reflections in a Golden Eye**. \*\* And **A Member of the Wedding**. ---
**Author:** ![slipster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@slipster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slipster)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-shot-great-authors/199418/45 "2003-09-04T20:02:23Z")
Nitpick: It’s **The Member of the Wedding**. Whoops: I was wrong about **Ensign Pulver** ; Heggen was credited for the screenplay of the movie but there was, apparently, no book. Another example: Ross Lockridge Jr.'s **Raintree County**. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-shot-great-authors/199418/46 "2003-09-05T00:41:07Z")
Last time I checked, Arundhati Roy’s only novel was The God Of Small Things, and it won the Booker Prize. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-shot-great-authors/199418/47 "2003-09-05T00:42:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Annie-Xmas \* > \*\*H. P. Saint wrote one of the best first novels “Memoirs of an Invisible Man.” Nothing else. \*\* You know, I wondered about that. I picked up that book in a Goodwill store, and was just simply amused for hours on end. But when I serached for other writings by him, I couldn’t find any. I just assumed they were all out of print. Very good, that novel. Although, **Annie-Xmas** , his name is _H. F. Saint_. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-shot-great-authors/199418/48 "2003-09-05T00:46:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SkipMagic \* > \*\*Although, **Annie-Xmas** , his name is _H. F. Saint_. 🆒 \*\* His full name is Harry F. Saint. What little personal information I’ve found suggest that he was a populizar of sqaush and an business executive in NYC. He’s 62 now, so there’s still a chance that he’ll publish more. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-shot-great-authors/199418/49 "2003-09-05T00:47:19Z")
Hey, \*\* Annie-Xmas\*\*! I just noticed how [famous](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0440201225/qid=1062723160/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_2/002-0226437-1104025?v=glance&s=books&n=507846) you are on that ol’ [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/cm/member-reviews/-/A3KWA0G121C0M2/1/ref=cm_cr_auth/002-0226437-1104025) place. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-shot-great-authors/199418/50 "2003-09-05T01:49:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by slipster \* > \*\*Charles Fort wrote a novel which, so far as I know, is still unpublished. \*\* Fort’s novel _The Outcast Manufacturers_ was published in 1909 and is in fact available [here](http://www.resologist.net/ocmei.htm) as a hypertext edition. Of course Fort also wrote _The Book of the Damned_ , _New Lands_, _Lo!_ and _Wild Talents_ which weren’t(??) fiction. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-shot-great-authors/199418/51 "2003-09-05T12:02:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SkipMagic \* > **Hey, \*\* Annie-Xmas**! I just noticed how [famous](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0440201225/qid=1062723160/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_2/002-0226437-1104025?v=glance&s=books&n=507846) you are on that ol’ [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/cm/member-reviews/-/A3KWA0G121C0M2/1/ref=cm_cr_auth/002-0226437-1104025) place. 😛 \*\* Thank you! I had no idea. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-shot-great-authors/199418/52 "2003-09-05T12:54:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by adirondack\_mike \* > \*\*John Kennedy Toole - > > Although it wasn’t published during his lifetime (If they only read it). > > His mom found another story that has also been published (Neon Bible). It is a good read, but I don’t think he would have gone forward with it. \*\* _Confederacy of Dunces_ is the name, should anyone be interested. It also won the Pulitzer. I read it for the first time a few weeks ago. What an absolutely awesome and incredibly funny book. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-shot-great-authors/199418.md?page=2)