Sara Niles
There are best sellers in books, and there are epic,
mega-bestsellers: books that have sold over one hundred million copies. The authors who have had the distinction of
being included among this very elite group, as mega-authors, are few.
The book by author
Agatha Christie that was published in 1939,
And Then There Were None reportedly sold over one hundred million copies
worldwide; which is no small feat
considering the fact the prolific Christie has reportedly sold over four
billion books worldwide, making Agatha Christie one of the most prolific authors of all time.
Books that have sold over one hundred million copies include
The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien and A Tale of Two Cites by Charles
Dickens; both English authors whose long
running sales dated back to the
nineteenth century, which of course, gave them both a good head start
Since the dawn of the second millennium, there have been
noteworthy authors who may eventually eclipse the former prolific champions for
the prize of mega-authors; to name a few:
Barbara Cartland (1 billion), Danielle Steele (800,000,000),
and JK Rowling (450,000,000)
Followed by Dean Koontz, Stephen King (350,000,000), and
Louis L’Amour (330,000,000), with a pretty long list of authors who have sold
over one hundred million books per volumes of work
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_fiction_authors;
however, there remain two distinct authors who are set far apart from the
crowd: Suzanne Collins and E.L. Grey.
The latter two authors, American author Suzanne Collins and English
author E.L. James, are epic mega-authors whose names will live long in the
annals of literature.
