The list was headed by the Creator of thrillers and detectives, American James Patterson, which in the last 12 months has been enriched by $90 million So that its revenues for the last ten years amounted to $700 million Patterson known due to a series of novels about inspector Alex Cross, the detective, Michael Bennett, and the novels of the series " Women's club of investigations of murders ". 2nd place - Dan brown, who over the past year has been enriched by $28 million due to the sales of his latest book " Inferno ", which in the USA has sold 1.4 million copies, brown could earn $6 million more than the year before. the top 3 also includes the Creator of the detective and romance novels Nora Roberts. From June 2013 to June 2014 she could earn $23 million the five most highly paid writers also got Daniel Steele ($22 million) and Janet Ivanovich ($20 million). followed by children's writer Jeff Kinney ($17 million), 26-year-old Veronica Roth ($17 million), the Creator of the so-called " legal thrillers " by John Grisham ($17 million) and " the king of horror Stephen king ($17 million). the chart also includes Susan Collins ($16 million), the Creator of the books about Harry Potter JK Rowling ($14 million), a science fiction writer George R.R. Martin ($12 million), David Baldacci ($11 million), Creator of the series of novels about Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan ($10 million), the Creator of the erotic novel " 50 shades of grey " Englishwoman E. L. James ($10 million), author Gillian Flynn ($9 million) and the Creator of books for teenagers John green ($9 million). http: //www. Forbes. EN/news/267217-forbes-sostavil-reiting-samykh-bogatykh-v-mire-pisatelei