Rowling has become the highest paid writer according to Forbes

Forbes called the author of the books about Harry Potter Joan Rowling the highest -paid writer in the world. According to the publication, for the year she earned $ 95 million.

Rowling managed this mainly due to the income from the play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and the performance of the same name. The writer also brought a significant income to the film “Fantastic creatures and where they live.” The general state of Rowling is estimated by Forbes at $ 650 million. This figure would be higher if the writer had not donated about $ 150 million for charity, the newspaper writes.

The second place was taken by last year's winner and the author of the Romanov series about the inspector Alex Cross James Patterson ($ 87 million), the third - the American writer Jeff Kinni ($ 21 million), known from the book of Simbak. The fourth place was received by the author of the book “Da Vinci Code” ($ 20 million), and Stephen King hit the fifth line. He earned $ 15 million for the book "Posted".

Joan Rowling is a British writer and the author of seven books about Harry Potter, whose total circulation exceeds 400 million copies.