The statistics present a ranking of the international authors who earned the most money from their works worldwide in 2019, in millions of U.S. dollars. The American suspense writer James Patterson ranked second in the global classification that year, with earnings of ** million U.S. dollars. In this way, he was about ** million U.S. dollars behind the earnings of the British writer J. K. Rowling, known especially for being the author of the Harry Potter saga, whose earnings were around ** million U.S. dollars.
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