The world Richest authors ranked.
No. 10th:
Dean Koontz,
$200 million
Published : 105 Books
Total Copies sold: 450 million
9th: R. L. Stine,
$200 million,
Wrote : 300 Horror books
most notably : The
Goosebumps
series.
8th:
Jeffrey Archer
, $286 million,
biggest-selling book, 1979's
Kane and Abel
,
published: 40 titles
sold : 320 million copies
7th:
Barbara Taylor
Bradford, $300 million
Wrote : 40 books
sold : 92 million
6th:
Danielle Steel
, $390 million,
penned 190 books, selling over 800 million copies.
Famous for romantic fiction
5th: Nora Roberts, $390 million
penned a staggering 225 romance novels, sold : 400 million copies
4th: John Grisham,
$400 million,
published over 40 books,
sold :300 million copies,
Best known for thriller books
3rd: Paulo Coelho,
$500 million
Famous book :Paulo Coelho's
The Alchemist
.
sold 150 million copies
2nd: James Patterson, $800 million,
famous for detective series.
wrote : 200 novels
Sold : 305 million books
1st: J. K. Rowling,
$1.1 billion
writer of
Harry Potter
sold :
over 500 million books