Forbes named the highest-paid writer

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Source: Rambler News Service

The author of a series of books about Harry Potter, Joan Rowling, became the highest-paid writer for Forbes magazine.

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For a year, Rowling earned $ 95 million.

The second place among the highest paid authors was taken by James Patterson, author of a series of novels about the inspector Alex Cross, - for a year he earned $ 87 million. The third place in the ranking is taken by Jeff Kinney, the author of the bestseller "Diary of the Weak", whose annual earnings were $ 21 million.

The ratings also included Dan Brown ($ 20 million), Stephen King ($ 15 million), John Grisham ($ 14 million), Nora Roberts ($ 14 million), Paul Hawkins ($ 13 million), EL James ($ 11.5 million) And Daniela Steele ($ 11 million).

Top 10 of the highest paid authors left George Martin, John Green and Veronica Roth.

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Whales of the real world

Majority of these writers are fiction writers. One of the clear case of mindset of people's cognitive easiness (how people don't want to hook into analytical real things around the world) .

On stemit they would become whales