Cash? She's Rowling in it
Submitted by debritz on October 3, 2008 - 21:39.
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It's no surprise that Harry Potter creator JK Rowling is the world's best-paid author, but the extent of her annual earnings stunned me. Here, according to a Forbes list, are the the top 10 literary earners with their pay packet in US dollars: JK Rowling ($300m), James Patterson ($50m), Stephen King ($45m), Tom Clancy ($35m), Danielle Steel ($30m), John Grisham ($25m), Dean Koontz ($25m), Ken Follett ($20m), Janet Evanovich ($17m), Nicholas Sparks ($16m). According to the BBC, Rowling earned about £5 (US$9 or A$11) a second over the past year. |
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