Forbes top earning authors for 2011

[Hugh]

Top-Earning Authors 2011 - Best-Selling Authors

Those numbers are incredible.

Janet Evanovich earns an advance of $10M per book? Seriously?

James Patterson earned an estiimated $84M?

 

[kelstan]

Does James Patterson really write anything anymore? He has so many "writing partners", I wonder he has time to sleep.

 

[regdog]

I'm kind of surprised JK Rowling only made 5 million. I would think she'd earn way more.

 

[pontalba]

I'm kind of surprised JK Rowling only made 5 million. I would think she'd earn way more.

Not so surprising actually. She did earn lots more.
She seems to, however, remember her roots and previous troubles more than some might their own.

Here is an interesting article speaking of her charitable contributions that knocked her out of the billionaires club. J.K. Rowling's charity giving knocks her off Forbes' billionaires list in the Mother Nature Network last year.