Stephen King The Fifth Highest-Paid Author of 2019… Guess Who Beat Him
Mike Sprague
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Well, it looks like IT and Doctor Sleep author Stephen King keeps ranking in the dough as today we have word that he has snagged the fifth spot on a recent list by Forbes centering on the World’s Highest-Paid Authors in 2019 with earnings of $17 million.
Fourth place went to Diary of a Wimpy Kid children’s series author Jeff Kinney with $20 million. Then former First Lady Michelle Obama at number three with $36 million. Then James Patterson rolls in at number two with $70 million. And, surprise, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling was the highest-paid author of 2019 with an estimated $92 million.
Fifth place or not, $17 million a year is nothing to shrug at. Congrats, King!
For those who might not know, King’s last book was The Institute published back in September.
It follows this synopsis:
In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy—who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, “like the roach motel,” Kalisha says. “You check in, but you don’t check out.”
In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don’t, punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute.
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