White House exposé rubbished by Donald Trump earns royalties to rival the likes of perennial favourites such as James Patterson and JK Rowling
Runaway sales of White House exposé Fire and Fury have powered Michael Wolff into Forbes’s annual round-up of the world’s highest paid authors for the first time.
According to the business magazine, which bases its estimates on data from NPD BookScan as well as interviews with industry insiders, Fire and Fury sold 1.7m copies worldwide during its first three weeks on sale. Coupled with seven-figure advances for a sequel, and the sale of film and television rights, in total Forbes estimates that Wolff earned $13m (£10.2m) from June 2017 to June 2018, putting him in seventh position in its list of the book world’s top annual earners.
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