We compared the world's wealthiest authors by counting the words that they produced in 2017 and the total payout they were rumored to earn in that year. Then, we calculated how much, in theory, ignori...

ng movie deals, merchandising, royalties, and other factors, they've been paid for each word they produced last year. See how much J.K. Rowling, Dan Brown, Stephen King, E.L. James, and others would get paid per word!