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By the 1970s Collins was a peer of successful male airport novel authors like Sidney Sheldon and Harold Robbins. [15]. Her third novel, Sunday Simmons & Charlie Brick (first published under the title The Hollywood Zoo in the UK and then retitled Sinners worldwide in 1984) was published in 1971 and again made the best-seller lists. This was ...
Harold Robbins (May 21, 1916 – October 14, 1997) was an American author of popular novels. One of the best-selling writers of all time , he wrote over 25 best-sellers, selling over 750 million copies in 32 languages.
This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author.A pen name may be used to make the author' name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or ...
Like Valley, the book was considered a roman à clef, with Robin reportedly based on former CBS president James Aubrey. [47] Published by Simon & Schuster on May 14, 1969, the book was an immediate success: it spent 32 weeks (13 weeks at #1) on The New York Times Best Seller list, [48] and was the third highest-selling novel of its year. [40]
Patricia Aakhus (1952–2012), The Voyage of Mael Duin's Curragh Rachel Aaron, Fortune's Pawn Atia Abawi Edward Abbey (1927–1989), The Monkey Wrench Gang Lynn Abbey (born 1948), Daughter of the Bright Moon Laura Abbot, My Name is Nell Belle Kendrick Abbott (1842–1893), Leah Mordecai Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1872–1958), poet, novelist and short story writer Hailey Abbott, Summer Boys ...
Nevil Shute (1899–1960), A Town Like Alice; Gareth Sibson (born 1977) Una Lucy Silberrad (1872–1955) Alan Sillitoe (1928–2010), Saturday Night and Sunday Morning; Dorothy Simpson (born 1933), mystery novels; Helen Simpson (born 1957) Clive Sinclair (1948–2018) Sarah Singleton (born 1966) Indra Sinha (born 1950) Eleanor Sleath (1770 ...
The list was criticized as biased towards English-language books, particularly those published by American authors. [3] Nigerian academic Ainehi Edoro criticized the lack of literature by African authors and the predominance of American literature on the list and called the list "an act of cultural erasure". [4]
English General fiction, romance 179 American: Harold Robbins: 750 million [8] 750 million [9] English Adventure: 23 American Georges Simenon: 500 million [10] 700 million [11] French: Detectives, Maigret, romans durs 570 Belgian: Enid Blyton: 600 million [12] English Children's literature, Noddy, The Famous Five, The Secret Seven: 800 British ...