TWILIGHT’S MEYER AND PATTERSON TOP HIGHEST-PAID AUTHORS LIST
TWILIGHT author STEPHENIE MEYER and JAMES PATTERSON have topped Forbes ma gazine’s best-paid authors list.
The Along Came a Spider writer earned an estimated $70 million (GBP46.7 million) in the last year, while Meyer, whose vampire novels have been t ransformed into a hit Hollywood franchise, was paid $40 million (GBP26.7 million).
Horror author Stephen King was third on the list with $34 million (GBP2 2.7 million) and Danielle Steel placed fourth, with $32 million (GBP21.3 million).
They were followed by Ken Follett, Dean Koontz, Janet Evanovich and Joh n Grisham.
Meanwhile, The Notebook writer Nicolas Sparks and Harry Potter’s J.K. R owling rounded out the top 10.
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