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Alice has just finished reading a book by Bob Campbell, written over 50 years ago, that she had randomly found at the library. It was an amazing read that really got Alice wondering what other books he has written. Excited, Alice goes on the internet to search for works by Campbell and she finds that in his entire lifetime, Campbell had never written any other books, although the one book that he did write was extremely popular.
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This is called a '''One-Book Author''', when a person produces one work in a specific field that becomes extremely popular but never forays into that field again. In the world of literature, the author might have a couple additional short stories or poems that were published, but no other novels. Compare [[One-Hit Wonder]], where someone has produced several works but only one had managed to become popular.
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May overlap with [[Author Existence Failure]], where the author doesn't live long enough to compose another work (i.e.: works published posthumously), or [[Tough Act to Follow]], where they're afraid they've peaked on their first attempt. The latter may also be a [[Reclusive Artist]].
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* 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.
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* The premise of ''[[Finding Forrester]]'' involves [[Sean Connery|Forrester]] being a One-Book Author. {{spoiler|In the end, [[Subverted Trope|he writes a second book]].}}
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* Ditto for the plot of ''Wonder Boys.''
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* The end of the film ''Croupier'' has the protagonist, a novelist and casino dealer, having completed and published his [[Roman à Clef]], realize that it is probably better for him to quit while he's ahead and not write another novel.
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* ''Stone Reader'' is a documentary about this trope following a dedicated reader who tracks down an obscure but brilliant One-Book Author and helps get his book republished.
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* ''[[The Night of the Hunter]]'', directed by [[Charles Laughton]]. While the film is today considered a classic, it did terribly when it was first released. Subsequently, Laughton was never given the chance to direct another film.
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* ''Kotch'' was Jack Lemmon's sole film as a director.
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* Bill Murray has been working in movies for over thirty years but ''[[Quick Change (film)|Quick Change]]'' remains his sole directorial credit.
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* ''Short Cut to Hell'' (1957) was the only movie James Cagney ever directed.
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* ''One-Eyed Jacks'' is the only film directed by [[Marlon Brando]] (who also played the lead role).
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* Screenwriter and author Dalton Trumbo directed only one film, ''[[Johnny Got His Gun]]'', an adaptation of his own novel.
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* [[Peter Lorre]] returned to Germany after [[World War Two]] and tried to reshape his career by writing, directing, and starring in ''Der Verlorene''. The film was poorly received and he returned to Hollywood, resigned to taking whatever roles he was offered.
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* Writer Steve Gordon had a very weak heart, and died shortly after completing his first directorial effort, ''[[Arthur (film)|Arthur]]'', in 1981.
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* ''The Brave'' is the only film that [[Johnny Depp]] has directed. Terrible reviews from American critics not only led him to leave directing but also [[No Export for You|refuse any offers for an American release of the film]].
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* While certainly not a literal One-Book Author, Stephen King's sole directing credit is on ''[[Maximum Overdrive]].'' As he considers the movie something of an [[Old Shame]], this is likely to stay the case.
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=== One-Film Actors ===
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* Fernando Ramos da Silva was a young street urchin who starred in the Brazilian crime classic ''Pixote'' in 1981. Da Silva, who played the title role, couldn't break out as an actor due to his illiteracy. He later returned to a life of crime before being killed in a shootout with police at the age of 17.
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* Carrie Henn won a Saturn Award for playing Newt in ''[[Aliens]]'', but to date (2012) never acted again.
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* [[Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory]] has roles played by two One-book Authors:
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** Child actor Peter Ostrum was offered a lucrative multi-picture film deal after playing Charlie Bucket in the 1971 [[Vindicated by Cable]] film [[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory|Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory]], but found film acting to be too much hard work, and took the option to go to college instead and work as a farm animal veterinarian in upper New York state, which he is to this day. He only returns to the public eye to do local school assemblies on his life and career, or on rare occasions for Wonka-related events (though he assisted in the commentary of the 25th anniversary DVD). WWCF is his only film role.
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** Michael Bollner, who played Augustus Gloop, never acted again after this movie. He was cast because he was a native of Munich, where the movie was shot and where he still lives to this day, and had to be taught his lines phonetically. Like Ostrum, he went to school and became a professional (he runs a tax accounting firm) and has only been seen in ''Willy Wonka''-related material since.
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* Kelly Reno, the star of ''[[The Black Stallion]]'', was set to make a good transition into adult acting when he was badly disfigured in a car accident. By the time he was out of recovery, all his offers had dried up and he never got any others.
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* Singer Doug Stone never did any acting outside a primary role in ''[[Gordy]]''. Even though a stroke brought his hitmaking to a screeching halt soon afterward, he continues to record sporadically to this day.
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* ''Paperhouse'' was the only major film role of lead actress Charlotte Burke.
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* Charmian Carr's first (and largest) acting role was as Liesl von Trapp in the film adaptation of ''[[The Sound of Music]]''. She then starred in the one-time television production of ''Evening Primrose,'' but left the business to raise her children.
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* 1981's ''The Legend of The Lone Ranger'' proved to be not only a [[Franchise Killer]], but also destroyed the career of its star, Klinton Spilsbury, who was making his film debut. He hasn't done another film since.
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* Although he'd appeared in various commercials, Russian actor Vladimir Garin died in a diving accident after shooting had completed for his first feature film, ''[[The Return]]''
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* Screenwriter Diane Thomas was discovered by [[Michael Douglas]], wrote ''[[Romancing the Stone]]'' and then died before she could do another film. There's now a Diane Thomas Screenwriting Award.
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* ''[[Eagle vs. Shark]]'' (which is probably best known as "that movie [[Jemaine Clement]] did before ''[[Flight of the Conchords]]''") is to date, the only film written by Loren Horsley (although it's not the only one she acted in, it ''is'' the only one she starred in.)
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* Los Angeles deputy district attorney Lou Holtz Jr. wrote a screenplay called ''[[The Cable Guy]]'', and through various connections it wound up in the hands of [[Chris Farley]], then later [[Jim Carrey]]. Once Carrey and director [[Ben Stiller]] took on the project they brought in [[Judd Apatow]] to do a major rewrite. After the film was finished Apatow appealed to the Writer's Guild for a screenplay credit, but they said no (he wound up being credited as producer), so Holtz is the sole credited writer. The film was a notorious flop. Holtz went back to being a DA and ''[[The Cable Guy]]'' is still his only screen credit.
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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.]]
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* Yoshifumi Kondo died shortly after making his only movie, ''[[Whisper of the Heart]]'' for [[Studio Ghibli]].
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* ''[[Gone with the Wind]]'' by Margaret Mitchell was her only novel. It is, however, quite the [[Doorstopper]].
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* Emily Brontë, ''[[Wuthering Heights (novel)|Wuthering Heights]]'' ([[Author Existence Failure|she died of tuberculosis]] a year after publishing the book)
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** Although she did write several poems that were published after her death.
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* [[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)
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* [[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.)
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* [[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.
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* Anna Sewell, ''[[Black Beauty]]''; she died shortly after the book was published.
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* Boris Pasternak, ''[[Doctor Zhivago]]''. (Pasternak was primarily a poet, though, and in Russia is mainly remembered as one.)
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* Chris Fuhrman, who died from cancer as he was finishing his sole book, ''The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys''.
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* Arundhati Roy, ''[[The God of Small Things]]''
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* ''[[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)
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* Leonard Gardner, ''Fat City''
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* Stephen Gately of [[Boyzone]] fame, ''The Tree of Seasons''. He finished the ending on the day that he died.
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* Giuseppe di Lampedusa, ''Leopard''.
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* John Okada, ''No-No Boy''.
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* ''The Book of Margery Kempe'', written by ([[Captain Obvious|who else?]]) Margery Kempe.
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* 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.
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* [[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.
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* Aleksandr Griboyedov and the play "Woe from Wit".
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* 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.]]
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* 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]]''.
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* ''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.)
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* 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.
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* 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.)
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* ''[[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.
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* 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.
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* 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]].
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* Fictional example, from ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'': One possible future for Jake Sisko has him write ''Anslem'' as his sole novel. (He also writes an anthology of short stories, though that is his only other literary work). In fact the way we find out about this is exactly as given in the example at top.
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* Original ''[[Wheel of Fortune]]'' letter-turner Susan Stafford, who left the show in October 1982, didn't really do anything much afterward. Her more famous replacement, Vanna White, also met this criteria at the time (unless being a contestant on ''[[The Price Is Right]]'' in June 1980 counts), but White's fame got her a few more television roles that now make her an aversion.
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* Speaking of ''Wheel'', former San Diego Chargers place kicker Rolf Benirschke hosted the daytime version from January 10 to June 30, 1989. He hasn't done too much on TV since, although he doesn't seem ashamed of the fact he did ''Wheel''.
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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.
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* 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.
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* ''Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's [[The Sex Pistols]]''. By the time the album came out, the band was already falling apart.
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* ''Give Up'' by The Postal Service. Even though they have done remixes and a John Lennon cover since then, it is unlikely that Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello will ever get together to do another Postal Service album again.
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* Sixties experimental rock band The United States Of America broke up after their self-titled debut, which sold poorly but was later [[Vindicated by History]].
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* Skip Spence, whose album ''Oar'' was released in 1969. He was a prominent member of the psychedelic band Moby Grape who turned out to be the American equivalent of Syd Barrett. He weirded out his bandmates by indulging in LSD and attacking someone with a fire axe. He got institutionalized, recorded ''Oar,'' and dropped out of the public life until his death in 1999.
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* The Fitness's ''Call Me For Together''. They have never produced anything more.
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* 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.
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* ''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 before forming the New Radicals. He split up the band as he was gaining fame, becoming a professional songwriter for other artists, his most notable song being "Game of Love" for Santana and Michelle Branch.
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* 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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* The Glove, a supergroup consisting of [[The Cure]] singer Robert Smith, Siouxsie and the Banshees bassist Steve Severin, and singer Jeannete Landray, released one album, ''Blue Sunshine''.
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** Another short-lived Cure side-project was Cult Hero, consisting of the members of The Cure c. 1979, various members of Smith's family, a couple members of local bands (including future Cure members Matthieu Hartley and Simon Gallup and former member Porl Thompson (he'd later rejoin the band)) and Smith's postman, Frank Bell on vocals. The group was supposedly formed see how well Gallup would gel with the other members of The Cure. After one single, 1979's "I'm A Cult Hero"/"I Dig You", Cult Hero disbanded and never recorded a thing again.
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* Seattle band Mother Love Bone released one EP and one LP, later compiled to one album. The band, destined to help lead the up-and-coming grunge movement of the 1990s, fizzled after singer Andrew Wood fatally overdosed in 1990. After Wood died, Soundgarden members Chris Cornell and Matt Cameron, who were good friends with Andrew Wood, partnered with singer Eddie Vedder and MLB members Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard to release one self-titled album as Temple of the Dog as a tribute to Wood, featuring hits such as "Hunger Strike" and "Say Hello 2 Heaven." As the album was being recorded and released, Ament, Gossard, and Vedder formed their own band, Pearl Jam, and Temple of the Dog broke up, with both respective bands skyrocketing to success on their own. After the success of Mother Love Bone and Temple of the Dog, Wood's earlier band, Malfunkshun, had all its songs compiled to one posthumous release, ''Return to Olympus''.
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* Splendora, an all-girl 90s grunge group notable for singing the theme song to ''Daria'', only ever produced one album, ''In the Grass''. They did later reunite to create songs for the two ''Daria'' TV Movies, "Turn the Sun Down" and "College Try".
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* ''Above'', the lone album by grunge supergroup Mad Season. The band's singer was [[Alice in Chains]]' Layne Staley, and his 2002 death ended any chance of a second album.
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* Forest For The Trees' self-titled album, which itself was a [[Troubled Production]] that almost never saw the light of day due to [[I Am the Band|Carl Stephenson]] having a nervous breakdown. There is the somewhat hard to find EP ''Sounds Of Wet Paint'', which combined remixes with a few outtakes from the debut, and a second album was reportedly [[Lost Episode|finished but never released.]]
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* The Eurodance/trance duo Trouser Enthusiasts produced countless remixes, but "Sweet Release" was their only original production, after which they disbanded.
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* Jumalatar only produced two EP's, ''Are We Thinking the Same Thing'' and ''Frenzy'', before parting ways.
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* Singer-songwriter Willis Alan Ramsey released his debut album in 1972, and has never released anything else, even though he's still an active performer with a cult following. Supposedly whenever anyone asks him why he hasn't released another album he says "What was wrong with the first one?" One of the songs on the album was "Muskrat Love" (originally called "Muskrat Candlelight"). Luckily for Ramsey, it was [[Covered Up]] ''and'' became a big hit, so he can collect royalty money while the rest of the world thinks of this [[Old Shame]] as a Captain & Tennille song.
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* Carole King's band The City released one album, ''Now That Everything's Been Said'' (1968), before they broke up and she embarked on a solo career.
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* Eric Clapton led two supergroups after the breakup of his band Cream. The first, Blind Faith, released one self-titled album with six songs in it. After Blind Faith fell apart, Clapton led Derek and the Dominoes, recording ''Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs''. Though the album and especially the title track are now considered classics, on its initial release the critical and commercial reaction was moderate at best; a year later, Duane Allman (not an official member of the band but an important contributor to ''Layla''; most notably, he helped to create the famous opening guitar riff from the title track) died in a motorcycle accident, exacerbating Clapton's substance abuse issues, and Derek and the Dominoes subsequently dissolved during an attempt to record a second album.
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* Scottish band Life Without Buildings released one album, 'Any Other City', before breaking up.
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* ''Guitar Romantic'' is the sole album by critically acclaimed [[Power Pop]] revivalists [[The Exploding Hearts]]. Three-fourths of the band [[Author Existence Failure|died in a tour van accident]] a few months after its release, effectively ending the band.
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* ''Grace'' is the lone studio album by [[Jeff Buckley]] before his death. He was recording a second, ''My Sweetheart The Drunk'', but he drowned in the Mississippi River before the recording sessions had even reached the halfway point. The unfinished material did get released as ''Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk'', however.
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* "Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight", the sole single of Dominatrix.
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* The band Lincoln released a [[Self-Titled Album]] in 1997 and became an opening act for [[They Might Be Giants]]. After they broke up in 1998 without releasing a follow-up, guitarist Dan Miller and bassist Danny Weinkauf joined TMBG's backing band and have been there ever since.
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* Early 90s Britpop band Starclub had a Top 10 US alt-rock radio hit, "Hard To Get", but broke up after only one album.
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* 1970s power-pop trio The Nerves released one four-song EP and broke up shortly after. Blondie released [[Covered Up|their own cover version of "Hanging on the Telephone,"]] and two of the members founded the Plimsouls, scoring an 80s hit with "A Million Miles Away."
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* A banker named Stuart Gorrell wrote the lyrics for his old college buddy Hoagy Carmichael's song "Georgia on My Mind". It was his only songwriting credit. The royalty money Gorrell earned for "Georgia" was enough to put his daughter through college.
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* The widely-covered "(Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I" (most famously done by [[Elvis Presley]]) is literally the only song ever written by its writer, Bill Trader.
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* [[The Oak Ridge Boys]]' "Gonna Take a Lot of River" was not the only song written by John Kurhajetz (ASCAP lists four other works), but it was the only one anyone recorded.
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* ''Colossal Youth'' was the sole release by influential minimalist [[Post Punk]] trio Young Marble Giants.
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* ''The Grand Pecking Order'' by Oysterhead, the short-lived [[Supergroup]] of [[Phish|Trey Anastasio]], [[Primus|Les Claypool]] and [[The Police|Stewart Copeland]].
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* Another supergroup who only managed one album was Zwan, who released their sole album, ''Mary Star of the Sea'' in 2003 and broke up later that year.
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* The International Submarine Band released their debut ''Safe at Home'', generally considered the first country rock album, in 1968. They broke up a few months later after leader Gram Parsons left to join The Byrds.
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* R&B duo Damian Dame is a tragic example. Damian Dame, a duo consisting of "Damian" Broadus and "de Dame" Debra Jean Hurd, released their self-titled debut on LaFace Records in 1991. On June 27, 1994, before the two would work on a second album, "deah Dame" was killed in a moped accident. Damian would perish from colon cancer exactly two years later.
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* The California [[Ska Punk]] band Suburban Rhythm, who were a major influence on subsequent popular groups in the Orange County scene such as [[Sublime]], [[No Doubt]] and [[Reel Big Fish]], only had one album, a compilation which was released three years ''after'' they broke up.
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* It's hard to tell whether Rob Dougan is one of these or not, considering that he appears to be a rather slow worker anyway. It took him seven years from the release of the single "Clubbed To Death" in 1995 to complete and release the accompanying full-length album ''Furious Angels''. The album came out in 2002, in 2003 he contributed one new track to the soundtrack of [[The Matrix Reloaded]] and did the string arrangement for a [[Sugababes]] single. There has been nothing heard from him since up to mid-2011, and given that he could probably retire on the royalties from "Clubbed To Death" alone, it's easy to suspect that he's chosen to do exactly that.
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* Australian electronica duo the Avalanches released their debut album ''Since I Left You'' in 2000 (with UK and North American releases the following year) to massive acclaim. As of 2011 a followup has yet to materialize.
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* "Music Sounds Better With You" by Stardust, a one-shot project from Thomas Bangalter of [[Daft Punk]] fame. It was never intended to have a following single, indeed this "dream team" of French electronic wizards never worked together again.
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* Rapeman was a noise-rock supergroup active for a very brief time in the late 1980s. Its members were Steve Albini (Big Black, and later Shellac), David Wm. Sims (Scratch Acid) and Rey Washam (big Boys and Scratch Acid). Their complete discography consists of their lone LP ''Two Nuns and a Pack Mule'', an EP called ''Budd'' (included in full on the CD reissue of ''Two Nuns'') and two 7'' singles.
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* ''The Golden Year'' is the only album released by British electronic rock band Ou Est Le Swimming Pool. The band folded shortly after its release due to the [[Author Existence Failure|suicide of their lead singer]] Charles Haddon [[Fatal Method Acting|who killed himself jumping from a mast at the 2010 Pukkelpop Festival]] earlier in the year.
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* The closure of [[DreamWorks]] Records in 2005 killed two [[Country Music]] bands after only one album: Hot Apple Pie (founded by former Little Texas singer Brady Seals) and Hanna-McEuen. Both of them disbanded immediately after the label went under.
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* [[Lauryn Hill]] only released 2 albums, ''The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill'' and ''MTV Unplugged 2.0'', and the latter was a live recording. Only her first album received overall acclaim, and after that album, she had a [[Creator Breakdown]] and left the public eye.
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* Country music singer Cyndi Thomson zig-zagged this trope. She quit after her first album for Capitol Records because she didn't think she could handle the pressure of a second album, but contributed to two multi-artist albums and wrote Gary Allan's Top 10 hit "Life Ain't Always Beautiful". She briefly returned to Capitol but never released anything.
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* A more direct country music example is The Buffalo Club, which included then-former Restless Heart drummer John Dittrich. They were active only for one album in 1997, and split up by year's end just before their label (Rising Tide Records) closed. Dittrich rejoined Restless Heart a year later.
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* Cellsite System, a Portland, Oregon based trance project, apparently only made one album, ''Between Frequencies''. The website is long gone, so [[Keep Circulating the Tapes|good luck finding the album]].
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* "Pump Up the Volume" was a worldwide top 10 smash in 1987, and a major influence on later examples of sampling in pop music (as well as electronic music as a whole). It was also the only song ever released by M|A|R|R|S, a collaboration between two artists on the independent record label 4AD ([[Dream Pop]] duo AR Kane and reggae group Colourbox).
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* "Carte Blanche", plus its B-side "Drafting", was the only original material by Veracocha, a one-off collaboration between Ferry Corsten and Vincent de Moor, although they did at least one remix (Ayla - Ayla).
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* Brazilian satirical band Mamonas Assassinas recorded only one album (which is one of the best-selling of all time in the country, mind you) before [[Author Existence Failure|dying in a plane crash]].
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* Another [[Country Music]] example is Caitlin & Will. They won the first season of [[CMT]]'s singing competition ''Can You Duet'', released one single and an EP, and broke up once the single fell from the charts.
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* ''Lies'' appears to be all we'll hear from the [[Synth Pop]] duo Heartbreak, although Ali Renault has a solo album, and Muravchik, under the alias Anthonio, released an [[Answer Song]] single to Annie(Anne Lilia Berge-Strand)'s "Anthonio" titled "Annie".
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* The psychedelica band [[wikipedia:Uriel (band)|Uriel]] only recorded and released one album—a self-titled album that was named while the band was using an alias, no less! The album, ''Arzachel'', was released in 1969 and became a long sought-after collector's item for psychedelica enthusiasts; its sole ([[Keep Circulating the Tapes|legal]]) re-release in 2007 sold out almost immediately.
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* Edmund Gettier was a philosopher looking for tenure at Wayne State University. To help with this he was encouraged to publish any ideas he had. He published a 3-page paper called ''Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?'' which completely changed epistemology (the study of knowledge) by showing that apparently, no it wasn't contrary to everything since Plato. He never touched epistemology again, and in fact has published nothing else.
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* Kanako Okada, the odd-woman-out of the [[All-Star Cast]] of ''[[Mitsumete Knight]]'' (a [[Spiritual Successor]] of ''Tokimeki Memorial''), has voiced Hanna Shawski, one of the main heroines of that franchise, and no other role afterwards.
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* Many of the Japanese VAs of the [[Kingdom Hearts]] series (especially, those from the Japanese Disney dubs) have never worked in other works (anime, games and otherwise) besides those games or they only did foreign dubs but not Anime or anything locally created:
** Some of the more [[Egregious]] examples are Riko Hanamura (Japanese VA for [[The Lion King|Nala]]) who only does foreign dubs, but not anime or Japanese games. Takashi Aoyagi ([[Mickey Mouse]]), Risa Uchida (Kairi),Iku Nakahara (Namine) and Mayumi Suzuki ([[Mulan]]) are practicaly typecasted as those characters, and in the case of Ms. Suzuki, she is typecasted as the ''eternal Japanese voice of Disney heroines'', and nothing else.
* ''[[L.A. Noire]]'' was the first and last work of Team Bondi, whose [[Troubled Production]] ultimately bankrupted the company.
* Four Leaf Studio, the group of people behind ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]'', was created specifically just for this one game and will not be making any other projects. Justified since it's a collaborative effort by people from all over the world and it has been 5 years in the making.
* The only thing people know for a fact about [[Reclusive Artist|Kikiyama]] is that (s)he was the creator of ''[[Yume Nikki]]''.


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* Voice actor Thom Huge voiced Jon Arbuckle in the animated specials based on ''[[Garfield]]'' and ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' (where he also voiced [[U.S. Acres|Roy the rooster]] and various other characters). To this day, those are his ''only'' credits in any medium.
** Huge was Jim Davis's associate at Paws Inc. who got roped into the role, rather than actually being a professional actor.
* Several actors from ''[[Daria]]'' have never done other acting, due to actually being people working behind the scenes who got roped into voice-acting, as opposed to professional voice-actors. For instance, Tracy Grandstaff, who voiced the main character on ''Daria'' as well as on ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'', was a writer for various MTV programs.
* Michael Wallis' only voice acting role (or acting credit of any kind for that matter) is as the the Sheriff of Radiator Springs in ''[[Cars]]'', its sequel and other spinoff media. That said, Wallis is also a renowned journalist and historian.
* Aside from a handful of brief cameos on a couple television shows, Sarah Vowell's only acting role is as Violet in ''[[The Incredibles]]''. Like Wallis, she's better known a writer and essayist (most famous for her appearances on ''[[This American Life]]'') instead of a professional actor.

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