Say Hello to The World’s Highest Earning Author!
October 7, 2008 by Marc Schindler ·
The world famous author JK Rowling is the world’s highest-earning author, making more than $8.00 every second over the past year. Can you believe that?! $8.00 a second… Geezus..
The “Harry Potter” writer, who made a total of $300 Million last year, wrote the first of her best-selling books about the boy wizard in 1997. Her income was six times more than literature’s next-biggest earner, James Patterson, of “Along Came A Spider” fame.
And who would of thought a story about a boy wizard would lead to this much success.
The books have sold more than 400 million copies and been translated into 67 languages!!!
Forbes magazine described her work as “a children’s literary sensation”.
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