The highest earning author of 2013, Erika Leonard James raked in £33.3 million that year and £10.6 million in 2012. Her Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy has had readers hooked but despite her wealth this adult romance writer continues to live modestly in west London. With over 500,000 followers on Twitter, James has set the record for the fastest selling paperback of all time yet modestly stated: “The explosion of interest has taken me completely by surprise”.

The Roll Call - WRITERS

1

Susie Steiner

2

Michael Russell (1933 – 2020)

3

Jackie Collins OBE (born Jacqueline Collins, 1937 – 2015)

4

Ann Barr (1929 – 2015)

5

Malcolm Gladwell

6

Merlin Holland

7

Josie Goodbody

8

Jeanette Winterson OBE

9

Anna Smith

10

Erika Leonard James (E. L. James)

11

Philip K. Dick (1928 – 1982; AKA Richard Phillipps and Jack Dowland)

12

Mary Berry CBE

13

Seamus Heaney (1939 – 2013)

14

Katherine “Kate” Mosse OBE

15

Anne Dunhill

16

John Armstrong

17

Derek Blasberg

18

Alex Preston

19

Dominick Dunne (1925 – 2009)

20

Pippa Middleton

21

Richard Mason

22

Arthur Ransome (1864 – 1967)

23

Susan Hill CBE

24

Helena Matheopolous

25

Steven Berkoff

26

Aita Ighodaro

27

Julian Fellowes (The Lord Fellowes of West Stafford DL, also known as Julian Kitchener-Fellowes)

28

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