Wednesday 16 November 2011

James Patterson, the World's Highest-Paid Author



 James B. Patterson was born in  Newburgh in 1947. Patterson is an American author of thriller novels better known for his series about the psychologist Alex Cross.

After Patterson retired from advertising in 1985, he spent his time writing. Patterson has written 71 novels in 33 years and he has had 19 consecutive New York Times bestselling novels.

 He retired from advertising in 1996 to devote his time to writing books. James Patterson has written nineteen consecutives number one best-selling novels so far. One of his novels always appears as one of the seventeen best-selling novels in the United States.

Patterson is known to be a co-author and has collaborated with various writers like Maxine Paetro, Andrew Gross, Peter De Jonge or Liza Marklund.

Patterson was awarded the Edgar Award, the BCA Mystery Guild's Thriller of the Year, the International Thriller of the Year award and the Children's Choice Book Award for Author of the Year

He founded the James Patterson Page Turner Awards in 2005 to donate over $850000 to people, companies, schools and other institutions.

 James Patterson is "The World's Highest-Paid Author". He earned 84 million dollars last year.  More information on this can be found on:
http://booksauthorsbooks.blogspot.com/2011/09/worlds-highest-paid-authors.html

In recent years his novels have sold more copies than those of Stephen King, John Grisham and Dan Brown combined.