Monday, August 20, 2012

Top-Earning Authors

From Forbes Magazine, 8/9/12:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2012/08/09/women-on-the-rise-among-the-worlds-top-earnings-authors/

Selected quotes from the article:

"Men still top the list of the world’s highest-earning authors, but this year it’s the women on the list who’ve been making the boldest moves, led by a trio of genre phenoms: Suzanne Collins, E.L. James and J.K. Rowling."

"Genre fiction and young adult are clearly where the money’s at."

  1. James Patterson ($94 million)
  2. Stephen King ($39 million)
  3. Janet Evanovich ($33 million)
  4. John Grisham ($26 million)
  5. Jeff Kinney ($25 million)
  6. Bill O'Reilly ($24 million)
  7. Nora Roberts ($23 million)
  8. Danielle Steel ($23 million)
  9. Suzanne Collins ($20 million)
  10. Dean Koontz ($19 million)
  11. J.K. Rowling ($17 million)
  12. George R.R. Martin ($15 million)
  13. Stephenie Meyer ($14 million)
  14. Ken Follett ($14 million)
  15. Rick Riordan ($13 million)

1 comment:

Barbara Elsborg said...

Darn it - I was so nearly on that list. Oh wait - it was millions of dollars? Er - no I wasn't then.