Who is the most published author of all time?

It's not who you think it is
Ron Hubbard the world's most published and most translated author, having published 1,084 fiction and non-fiction works that have been translated into 71 languages.”
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Who is the most widely published author of all time?

Brazilian author Ryoki Inoue holds the Guinness World Record for being the most prolific author, with 1,075 books published under many pseudonyms. Inoue would write all day and all night until he finished a book.
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Who is the most read author in history?

Heralded as the Queen of Mystery, Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time, outsold only by Shakespeare and the Bible. According to a recent study conducted by Harper Collins, Christie has sold more than 1 billion copies in the English language alone.
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Who has sold the most books ever?

Tolkien, that lack comprehensive sales figures. According to Guinness World Records as of 1995, the Bible is the best-selling book of all time with an estimated 5 billion copies sold and distributed.
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Who is the Number 1 author in the world?

World's Highest-Paid Authors 2019: J.K. Rowling Back On Top With $92 Million.
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L. Ron Hubbard: The Most Published Author of All Time (And Some Other Stuff)



Who are the top 5 authors of all time?

Top 10 Authors by Number of Books Selected
  • William Shakespeare – 11.
  • William Faulkner – 6.
  • Henry James – 6.
  • Jane Austen – 5.
  • Charles Dickens – 5.
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky – 5.
  • Ernest Hemingway – 5.
  • Franz Kafka – 5.
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Who is highest paid author?

  • 1.4 8. Paula Hawkins ($ 13 million)
  • 1.5 7. Nora Roberts ($ 14 million)
  • 1.6 6. John Grisham ($ 14 million)
  • 1.7 5. Stephen King ($ 15 million)
  • 1.8 4. Dan Brown ($ 20 million)
  • 1.9 3. Jeff Kinney ($ 21 million)
  • 1.10 2. James Patterson ($ 87 million)
  • 1.11 1. JK Rowling ($ 95 million)
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Which book is most read in the world?

The most read book in the world is the Bible. Writer James Chapman created a list of the most read books in the world based on the number of copies each book sold over the last 50 years. He found that the Bible far outsold any other book, with a whopping 3.9 billion copies sold over the last 50 years.
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What is considered the greatest novel of all time?

Here is a list of 12 novels that, for various reasons, have been considered some of the greatest works of literature ever written.
  • Anna Karenina. Greta Garbo in Anna Karenina. ...
  • To Kill a Mockingbird. To Kill a Mockingbird. ...
  • The Great Gatsby. F. ...
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude. ...
  • A Passage to India. ...
  • Invisible Man. ...
  • Don Quixote. ...
  • Beloved.
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What person has the most books written about them?

By 1980, according to The Guinness Book of World Records, Muhammad Ali had surpassed Lincoln, Christ, and Napoleon as the most written-about person in history.
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What is the #1 best-selling author of all time?

James Patterson is the world's highest-paid author by a wide margin, and has been the world's best-selling author since 2001. He has sold more than 350 million books worldwide, and is most famous for the "Alex Cross" crime novel series.
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Is J.K. Rowling the most successful author?

Harry Potter creator JK Rowling has been named the world's most highly-paid author with earnings of £72.2m ($95m) this year.
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Is J.K. Rowling the best-selling author of all time?

Written while in impoverished conditions, Rowling has rose to prominence as one of the wealthiest and bestselling authors in history. In fact, the Harry Potter series is so popular that it holds the Guinness World Record for All-Time Bestselling Series of Books.
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Has one piece outsold the Bible?

While 454 million copies and counting is a massive achievement, especially when you consider that the first issue was released on Oct. 20, 1999, no, it hasn't outsold the Bible. In fact, it hasn't even come close to touching the Adventures of Jesus and Friends (alternate title, probably.)
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What book has the most pages?

Infinite Jest

It's the novel you suspect you should have read by now but, most likely, haven't. Published in 1996 at a length of 1,079 pages, Infinite Jest took David Foster Wallace four years to write.
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How many books sold 100000 copies?

According to Bookstat, which looks at the book publishing market as a whole, there were 2.6 million books sold online in 2020 and only 268 of them sold more than 100,000 copies—that's only 0.01 percent of books.
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Who Wrote the Bible?

Even after nearly 2,000 years of its existence, and centuries of investigation by biblical scholars, we still don't know with certainty who wrote its various texts, when they were written or under what circumstances.
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What is the most selling book?

The Bible. The Bible is the best-selling book of all time, having sold around 5 billion copies to date. The book had several authors and can be roughly divided into two parts: The Old Testament and the New Testament. The Bible was written somewhere in the period between the 8th BC and the 1st Century CE.
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What is the 10 most read book in the world?

We've got a list of the most read books in the world of all time.
  • The Holy Bible.
  • The Holy Quran.
  • The Harry Potter Series: J.K. Rowling.
  • The Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse Tung.
  • The Lord of the Rings.
  • The Alchemist.
  • The Diary of Anne Frank: Anne Frank.
  • The Twilight SagA: Stephenie Meyer.
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Who is the richest female author?

Nora Roberts is the queen of romance novels, and the prolific author has an estimated net worth of $400 million. She began her career in the late 1970s, and has since written over 230 books.
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What author has written the most books?

Further investigation turns up a report that “In 2006, Guinness World Records declared L. Ron Hubbard the world's most published and most translated author, having published 1,084 fiction and non-fiction works that have been translated into 71 languages.”
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How much did J.K. Rowling make per book?

CNBC estimates that Rowling has earned well over $1 billion from Harry Potter book sales alone, assuming a standard 15% royalty, as well as another $50 million for her books for adults and several Potter spinoffs.
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Who is the best author alive?

The 10 best living American novelists
  1. Alice Walker. Getty Images. ...
  2. Marilynne Robinson. ...
  3. Jonathan Franzen. ...
  4. Michael Chabon. ...
  5. Bret Easton Ellis. ...
  6. George Saunders. ...
  7. Rachel Kushner. ...
  8. Anne Tyler.
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Who is the most famous book?

10 Most Popular Books of All Time
  • Don Quixote. By Miguel de Cervantes. ...
  • Lord of the Rings. By J.R.R. Tolkien. ...
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. By J.K. Rowling. ...
  • And Then There Were None. By Agatha Christie. ...
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. By Lewis Carroll. ...
  • The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. ...
  • Pinocchio. ...
  • Catcher in the Rye.
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