The Top-Earning Authors in the World

BANGALORE:   Every now and then we here about the top richest in ITs, film makers, sports people but there is also a category Writing involved entertaining and captivating the hearts of million people across the globe. Only a writer can know how much hours of arduous hard work is to be done in building the stories and research done to make them worth read.

Although the profession seems to be less lucrative but at times it’s encouraging to see that their hard work is paid off. Let us glance into the life of 7 richest authors who got paid off in big big way.

1. JK Rowling

It is an open secret now that world is embracing Harry Potter’s success story in the name of J.K. Rowling, author of Harry Potter series. She is the richest of all authors in today’s date, with a total worth of around $1 billion.

Her first book Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was published in 1997. After that she never looked back and kept on writing the sequels till 2007, completing the series with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It was the fastest selling book of all time with a record sale of around 15 million copies in 24 hours.