Forbes Releases Top 15 Authors By Earnings
Forbes has released its list of the World’s Top-Earning Authors. On this year’s list, James Patterson reigns supreme by a wide margin, followed by Stephen King.
The top 15 top-earning authors are listed below:
- James Patterson – $94 million
- Stephen King – $39 million
- Janet Evanovich – $33 million
- John Grisham – $26 million
- Jeff Kinney – $25 million
- Bill O’Reilly – $24 million
- Nora Roberts – $23 million
- Danielle Steel – $23 million
- Suzanne Collins – $20 million
- Dean Koontz – $19 million
- J.K. Rowling – $17 million
- George R.R. Martin – $15 million
- Stephenie Meyer – $14 million
- Ken Follett – $14 million
- Rick Riordan – $13 million
There are thousands of starving authors out there, but the ones who are doing great are definitely far from from starving.
