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== Anime and Manga ==
* Tatsuya Nakazaki, the Japanese voice actor who voiced Akito Hayama in [[Kodomo no Omocha]], only voiced that character and both Hajime and Shiro Ryojoji in [[Jubei-chan]]. Apart of those roles and some Japanese dubbing roles (he voiced young Simba in the first [[The Lion King]] Japanese dub and he was the only voice actor that was replaced in the remasterized version of the dub) he retired from voice acting after that.
== Literature ==▼
* ''[[Gone with the Wind]]'' by Margaret Mitchell was her only novel. It is, however, quite the [[Doorstopper]].▼
* Emily Brontë, ''[[Wuthering Heights (novel)|Wuthering Heights]]'' ([[Author Existence Failure|she died of tuberculosis]] a year after publishing the book)▼
** Although she did write several poems that were published after her death.▼
* [[Oscar Wilde]], ''[[The Picture of Dorian Gray]]'' (his only novel; he did write several famous [[The Importance of Being Earnest|plays]], poems and short stories)▼
* [[Sylvia Plath]], ''[[The Bell Jar]]'' (she also, of course, wrote many poems, and at least part of the reason she never wrote another novel was that, well, [[Author Existence Failure|she committed suicide]] shortly after ''The Bell Jar'' was published.)▼
* [[Edgar Allan Poe]] left behind a large collection of poetry and short stories despite dying at the age of 40, but ''[[The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket]]'' was his only novel.▼
* Anna Sewell, ''[[Black Beauty]]''; she died shortly after the book was published.▼
* Boris Pasternak, ''[[Doctor Zhivago]]''. (Pasternak was primarily a poet, though, and in Russia is mainly remembered as one.)▼
* Chris Fuhrman, who died from cancer as he was finishing his sole book, ''The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys''.▼
* Arundhati Roy, ''[[The God of Small Things]]''▼
* ''[[Invisible Man (novel)|Invisible Man]]'' by Ralph Ellison (he tried to write a second book, ''Juneteenth'' - it was over ''2,000 pages long'' and was still not considered finished. ''Greatly'' abridged versions are sometimes published)▼
* Leonard Gardner, ''Fat City''▼
* Stephen Gately of [[Boyzone]] fame, ''The Tree of Seasons''. He finished the ending on the day that he died.▼
* Giuseppe di Lampedusa, ''Leopard''.▼
* Cyril Connolly, ''The Rock Pool''.▼
* ''[[The Fathers]]'' (by Allen Tate).▼
* John Okada, ''No-No Boy''.▼
* ''The Book of Margery Kempe'', written by ([[Captain Obvious|who else?]]) Margery Kempe.▼
* John Kennedy Toole was this for a while, because he committed suicide before ''[[A Confederacy of Dunces]]'' was even published. After his mother died in 1989, however, publishers released his sole piece of juvenilia, ''The Neon Bible'', a novel Toole wrote when he was 15. Oddly enough, despite ''[[A Confederacy of Dunces]]'' being far better known and acclaimed, ''The Neon Bible'' has had a film adaptation, whereas plans to adapt the former languished in [[Development Hell]] for years until (apparently) finally being abandoned.▼
* [[Tom Stoppard]], wrote the decidedly peculiar novel ''Lord Maquist and Mr. Moon'' the same year he wrote ''[[Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead]]'' and proceeded to only write plays/screenplays from then on.▼
* Aleksandr Griboyedov and the play "Woe from Wit".▼
* Ross Lockridge spent the better part of a decade writing the [[Doorstopper]] ''Raintree County'', which was sort of an attempt to cross ''[[Gone with the Wind]]'' and ''[[Ulysses]]''. It was published to mostly good reviews and sales in 1948, but depression, writer's block and possibly a bad review in ''The New Yorker'' drove him to suicide a few months after it was published. A decade later the novel was [[Adaptation Displacement|adapted into an epic film.]]▼
* Given the impact that Juan Rulfo had on Latin American literature and the genre of [[Magical Realism]], its amazing that he wrote only two rather short books - ''El Llano en Llamas (The Burning Plain)'' (a short story anthology), and ''[[Pedro Paramo]]''.▼
* ''Save Me The Waltz'', Zelda Fitzgerald. (Only novel, although her complete works, including the play, short stories, and magazine articles she wrote still only fill a medium sized paperback.)▼
* Austin Tappan Wright's utopian novel ''Islandia''. He worked on the project for years strictly as a hobby; a heavily-condensed version was published after his death in an automobile accident.▼
* Fictional example: In the ''[[Teenage Worrier]]'' series, Letty's father is the author of a widely acclaimed novel called "Moving On", but since his daughter's birth it has taken him almost sixteen years to finish his next work (and, it is implied, he probably never will.)▼
* The ''[[Teenage Worrier]]'' example is similar to the father in ''[[I Capture the Castle]]'', but at the end we learn the father in that book has begun creating another work.▼
* ''[[A Canticle for Leibowitz]]'', by Walter Miller Jr. After the book's publication in 1960, Miller isolated himself for 40 years and never wrote another book, though at the time of his suicide he was at work on his second novel, which had to be finished by a ghost writer and posthumously published.▼
* Portuguese poet Cesário Verde only had one book published. This is because his poems read as modern ones and 19th century romantic society simply didn't like it.▼
* M.L. Humphreys. Some people believe that this was the pseudonym of a more-prolific author, but - in lieu of any hard evidence to support this - he (or she) fits under here. His/her only written work was a short story called ''The Floor Above'', mainly remembered today because it was one of [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s [[Celebrity Endorsement|favorite horror stories]].▼
== Newspaper Comics ==▼
* Bill Watterson. Aside from a few preceding political/college cartoons, ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' is the only thing he has done, ever. After he retired his comic strip in 1995 after a ten-year run, he released no other work, despite writing a few essays on sporadic special occasions. The only really notable thing he's done since retiring is to write the introduction to the first [[Cul de Sac (comic strip)|Cul De Sac]] collection.▼
* Gary Larson likewise. He did write a proto Far Side comic which essentially became [[The Far Side]]. After it finished its run, he retired and hasn't done much else except for a children's book.▼
== Film ==
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* An insurance manager (and eventual fertilizer salesman) named Hal Warren got involved in a bet with screenwriter Stirling Silliphant, in which Warren wagered that he would make a horror film on a shoestring budget. [[Manos: The Hands of Fate|The rest is history.]]
* Yoshifumi Kondo died shortly after making his only movie, ''[[Whisper of the Heart]]'' for [[Studio Ghibli]].
▲== Literature ==
▲* ''[[Gone with the Wind]]'' by Margaret Mitchell was her only novel. It is, however, quite the [[Doorstopper]].
▲* Emily Brontë, ''[[Wuthering Heights (novel)|Wuthering Heights]]'' ([[Author Existence Failure|she died of tuberculosis]] a year after publishing the book)
▲** Although she did write several poems that were published after her death.
▲* [[Oscar Wilde]], ''[[The Picture of Dorian Gray]]'' (his only novel; he did write several famous [[The Importance of Being Earnest|plays]], poems and short stories)
▲* [[Sylvia Plath]], ''[[The Bell Jar]]'' (she also, of course, wrote many poems, and at least part of the reason she never wrote another novel was that, well, [[Author Existence Failure|she committed suicide]] shortly after ''The Bell Jar'' was published.)
▲* [[Edgar Allan Poe]] left behind a large collection of poetry and short stories despite dying at the age of 40, but ''[[The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket]]'' was his only novel.
▲* Anna Sewell, ''[[Black Beauty]]''; she died shortly after the book was published.
▲* Boris Pasternak, ''[[Doctor Zhivago]]''. (Pasternak was primarily a poet, though, and in Russia is mainly remembered as one.)
▲* Chris Fuhrman, who died from cancer as he was finishing his sole book, ''The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys''.
▲* Arundhati Roy, ''[[The God of Small Things]]''
▲* ''[[Invisible Man (novel)|Invisible Man]]'' by Ralph Ellison (he tried to write a second book, ''Juneteenth'' - it was over ''2,000 pages long'' and was still not considered finished. ''Greatly'' abridged versions are sometimes published)
▲* Leonard Gardner, ''Fat City''
▲* Stephen Gately of [[Boyzone]] fame, ''The Tree of Seasons''. He finished the ending on the day that he died.
▲* Giuseppe di Lampedusa, ''Leopard''.
▲* Cyril Connolly, ''The Rock Pool''.
▲* ''[[The Fathers]]'' (by Allen Tate).
▲* John Okada, ''No-No Boy''.
▲* ''The Book of Margery Kempe'', written by ([[Captain Obvious|who else?]]) Margery Kempe.
▲* John Kennedy Toole was this for a while, because he committed suicide before ''[[A Confederacy of Dunces]]'' was even published. After his mother died in 1989, however, publishers released his sole piece of juvenilia, ''The Neon Bible'', a novel Toole wrote when he was 15. Oddly enough, despite ''[[A Confederacy of Dunces]]'' being far better known and acclaimed, ''The Neon Bible'' has had a film adaptation, whereas plans to adapt the former languished in [[Development Hell]] for years until (apparently) finally being abandoned.
▲* [[Tom Stoppard]], wrote the decidedly peculiar novel ''Lord Maquist and Mr. Moon'' the same year he wrote ''[[Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead]]'' and proceeded to only write plays/screenplays from then on.
▲* Aleksandr Griboyedov and the play "Woe from Wit".
▲* Ross Lockridge spent the better part of a decade writing the [[Doorstopper]] ''Raintree County'', which was sort of an attempt to cross ''[[Gone with the Wind]]'' and ''[[Ulysses]]''. It was published to mostly good reviews and sales in 1948, but depression, writer's block and possibly a bad review in ''The New Yorker'' drove him to suicide a few months after it was published. A decade later the novel was [[Adaptation Displacement|adapted into an epic film.]]
▲* Given the impact that Juan Rulfo had on Latin American literature and the genre of [[Magical Realism]], its amazing that he wrote only two rather short books - ''El Llano en Llamas (The Burning Plain)'' (a short story anthology), and ''[[Pedro Paramo]]''.
▲* ''Save Me The Waltz'', Zelda Fitzgerald. (Only novel, although her complete works, including the play, short stories, and magazine articles she wrote still only fill a medium sized paperback.)
▲* Austin Tappan Wright's utopian novel ''Islandia''. He worked on the project for years strictly as a hobby; a heavily-condensed version was published after his death in an automobile accident.
▲* Fictional example: In the ''[[Teenage Worrier]]'' series, Letty's father is the author of a widely acclaimed novel called "Moving On", but since his daughter's birth it has taken him almost sixteen years to finish his next work (and, it is implied, he probably never will.)
▲* The ''[[Teenage Worrier]]'' example is similar to the father in ''[[I Capture the Castle]]'', but at the end we learn the father in that book has begun creating another work.
▲* ''[[A Canticle for Leibowitz]]'', by Walter Miller Jr. After the book's publication in 1960, Miller isolated himself for 40 years and never wrote another book, though at the time of his suicide he was at work on his second novel, which had to be finished by a ghost writer and posthumously published.
▲* Portuguese poet Cesário Verde only had one book published. This is because his poems read as modern ones and 19th century romantic society simply didn't like it.
▲* M.L. Humphreys. Some people believe that this was the pseudonym of a more-prolific author, but - in lieu of any hard evidence to support this - he (or she) fits under here. His/her only written work was a short story called ''The Floor Above'', mainly remembered today because it was one of [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s [[Celebrity Endorsement|favorite horror stories]].
== Live Action TV ==
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* Again contingent on whether or not "contestant" counts as a role, the only on-camera role for Mike Reilly was hosting the short-lived 1990 game show adaptation of ''[[Monopoly (TV series)|Monopoly]]''. Series creator [[Merv Griffin]] chose Reilly after he was a ''[[Jeopardy!]]'' contestant.
▲== Newspaper Comics ==
▲* Bill Watterson. Aside from a few preceding political/college cartoons, ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' is the only thing he has done, ever. After he retired his comic strip in 1995 after a ten-year run, he released no other work, despite writing a few essays on sporadic special occasions. The only really notable thing he's done since retiring is to write the introduction to the first ''[[Cul de Sac (comic strip)|Cul De Sac]]'' collection.
** As of the middle 2010s, though, he's started doing once-a-year collaborations with Berke Breathed that [[Intercontinuity Crossover|cross over]] ''Calvin and Hobbes'' and ''[[Bloom County]]''.
▲* Gary Larson likewise. He did write a proto-''[[The Far Side|Far Side]]'' comic which essentially became ''[[The Far Side]]''. After it finished its run, he retired and hasn't done much else except for a children's book.
== Music ==
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* The Fitness's ''Call Me For Together''. They have never produced anything more.
* Chris Bell, founding member of 1970s power pop legends Big Star, released one single in his lifetime, "I Am the Cosmos" with "You and Your Sister" as its B-side. Bell was poised to develop a solo career when his life was cut short by a tragic car accident in 1978. The single, along with the work of Big Star, developed a cult following in the 1980s and there was enough demand for a release of a complete discography of Bell's solo work in 1992, also called ''I Am The Cosmos''. The album consists of the aforementioned single along with unreleased songs and demos.
* ''Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too'', released in 1998, is the sole album by [[New Radicals]], containing the hit "You Get What You Give." Lead singer Gregg Alexander, a singer-songwriter known for his mixture of catchiness and cynicism, released two albums
** This is an interesting example because [[New Radicals]] kept changing lineup, the only members consistent throughout the whole time were Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois. Danielle released two solo albums featuring Gregg Alexander as co-writer and guest performer on almost every track, meaning that they are technically also New Radicals albums. Rick Nowels co-wrote most New Radicals songs, however, despite not actually being a member of the band, so take from that what you will.
* Minuteflag, a supergroup composed of LA punk legends [[The Minutemen]] and [[Black Flag]], released one self-titled EP of mostly instrumental tunes. They made a pact to release the collaboration as soon as one of the bands broke up. Sadly, it was released after Minutemen broke up due to the tragic death of leader D. Boon. The EP, released in 1986, remains out of print.
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