The us financial-economic magazine Forbes named the highest paid writers in 2016.
The author of the “Harry Potter” JK Rowling has taken in this ranking the third place, and George Martin, who wrote a series of novels in the fantasy genre “a Song of ice and fire”, which was created by the TV series “Game of thrones” – 10th place. First place in the ranking Jeff Patterson ($95 million) – the author of a series of novels about inspector Alex Cross.
On the second line Jeff Kinney ($19.5 million), who wrote the bestseller “diary of a weakling”. The third position is JK Rowling ($19 million) has released a series of books about wizard Harry Potter.
Fourth place went to John Grisham ($18 million) is the author of several best-selling books, filmed in Hollywood.
Fifth place was shared by the authors on bestselling author Nora Roberts and Danielle steel, and “king of horror” Stephen king ($15 million).
The eighth position is given by E. L. James ($14 million), known for “Fifty shades of grey”.
In ninth place were the authors of the works that Hollywood recently filmed the movies Paula Hawkins (the Girl on the train”), John green (the Fault in our stars) and Veronica Roth (“Divergent”) – $10 million.
The rating Dan brown (“da Vinci Code”), Rick Riordan (novels about Percy Jackson) and George Martin (“a Song of ice and fire”) for $9.5 million.
