The Top Ten Highest Paid Authors

Forbes keeps on releasing top paid personalities. This time around it issued the top ten highest paid authors for the year. Among those in the list is Stephanie Meyer and yes, she is still there, JK Rowling.

On the top of the list is James Patterson, the thriller novel writer is runaway winner earning 70 million dollars. Nine out of his many works has already been adapted either in television or film.

Meyer is boosting up her financial worth with yet another release of a film adaptation for The Twilight Saga. Her second place finish is high considering she did not release any new book for 2009.

Fifth-ranked Ken Follet‘s most notable work The Pillars of the Earth is currently being shown as a television mini-series adaptation.

John Grisham, the legal thriller author at number 8, has added a book in his bibliography that is aimed at a younger audience with the release of Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer.

Romantic fiction writer Nicholas Sparks is at the ninth position. His latest novel, Safe Haven will be released next month. It is already slated for a film adaptation, the eighth in his works.

Finally, the world’s first billionaire author JK Rowling is still in the list. With the last Harry Potter released in 2007, her income is slowly decreasing.

Here is the top ten list:

1. James Patterson – $70 million
2. Stephanie Meyer – $40 million
3. Stephen King – $34 million
4. Danielle Steel – $32 million
5. Ken Follet – $20 million
6. Dean Koontz – $18 million
7. Janet Evanovich – $16 million
8. John Grisham – $15 million
9. Nicholas Parks – $14 million
10. JK Rowling – $10 million

Incoming search terms for the article:

• top ten highest paid black authors

Tags: james patterson, jk rowling, legal thriller author, novel writer, romantic fiction, thriller novel

Berita Terkait lainnya:

The Highest Paid Authors Forbes com

The Highest-Paid Authors Dirk Smillie, 08.19.10, 06:30 PM EDT Times may be tough ... But the world's 10 top-earning authors are making out just fine, earning a ...

Sumber: http://www.forbes.com/2010/08/19/patterson-meyer-king-business-media-highest-paid-authors.html

The World s Best Paid Authors Forbes com

The World's Best Paid Authors Lacey Rose and Lauren Streib, 10.01.08, 12:30 PM EDT ... And Danielle Steel rounds out the top five, earning $30 million. To date ...

Sumber: http://www.forbes.com/2008/10/01/books-publishing-media-biz-media-cx_lr_1001authors.html

Top Ten Highest Paid Authors What Do They Have in Common Yahoo

In August 2010, Forbes.com listed the top ten highest paid authors, a group of bestsellers who brought in a combined $270 million over a period of twelve months ...

Sumber: http://voices.yahoo.com/article/5715994/top_ten_highest_paid_authors_what_do.html

The World s Highest Paid Authors Forbes

Yet the world's top-selling authors -- people like ... The World's Highest-Paid Authors ... Ten Ways To Pay For College Right Now; 10 ...

Sumber: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2011/08/17/the-worlds-highest-paid-authors/

Top ten list highest paid authors Book Reader Forums

From the BBC, October 3, 2008: BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Rowling 'makes £5 every second' 1. JK Rowling - $300M 2. James Patterson - $50M (notice the HUGE difference ...

Sumber: http://www.bookandreader.com/forums/f7/top-ten-list-highest-paid-authors-19282.html

Disclaimer : Above search results is taken directly from internet without any moderation and modification. girlycious.com held no responsibility for any content (video, image, discription of page and other) and external links provided in this search result page of this blog. By visiting this page, you agree to the disclaimer. Thanks and happy searching and bloging.