Which person has had sold more books than the other, Larry Baker or Michael Crichton?
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Larry Baker Larry Joe Baker was an American college and professional football player. An offensive tackle, he played college football at Bowling Green State, and played professionally in the American Football League for the New York Titans in 1960.
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Michael Crichton John Michael Crichton ( ; October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008) was an American best-selling author, screenwriter, film director and producer best known for his work in the science fiction, medical fiction and thriller genres. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and many have been adapted into films.
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Barbara Cartland Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland DBE CStJ (9 July 1901 – 21 May 2000) was an English author of romance novels, one of the best-selling authors as well as one of the most prolific and commercially successful worldwide of the twentieth century. Her 723 novels were translated into 38 languages and she continues to be referenced in the "Guinness World Records" for the most novels published in a single year in 1976. As Barbara Cartland she is known for her numerous romantic novels but she also wrote under her married name of Barbara McCorquodale and briefly under the pseudonym of Marcus Belfry. She wrote more than 700 books, as well as plays, music, verse, drama, magazine articles and operetta, and was a prominent philanthropist. She reportedly sold more than 750 million copies. Other sources estimate her book sales at more than two billion copies. She specialised in 19th-century Victorian era pure romance. Her novels all featured portrait-style artwork, particularly the cover art, usually designed by Frances Marshall.
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Basket Moon Basket Moon is the title of a 1999 children's book by Mary Lyn Ray. It was illustrator Barbara Cooney's last book, published six months before she died. The book details a 19th-century boy who makes baskets and sells them in town, similar to Cooney's earlier book, "Ox-Cart Man". One magazine praised the book for being "quiet and beautiful".
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Russell Baker Russell Wayne Baker (born August 14, 1925) is an American writer known for his satirical commentary and self-critical prose, as well as for his Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography "Growing Up" (1982). He was a columnist for "The New York Times" from 1962 to 1998, and also hosted the PBS show "Masterpiece Theatre" from 1992 to 2004. The ""Forbes Media Guide Five Hundred, 1994" states:
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Larry Smith (editor) Larry Smith (born September 17, 1968) is an American author and editor, and publisher of "Smith Magazine". He is best known for developing the best-selling book series "Six-Word Memoirs", a literary subgenre that took on a life of its own in popular culture as publications began holding reader contests and publishing the results. The form has been described as "American haiku." Smith credits Ernest Hemingway's reputed shortest story, "”, with inspiring the viral literary movement.
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J. A. Baker John Alec Baker was an English author best known for "The Peregrine," which won the Duff Cooper Prize in 1967. Robert Macfarlane deemed it to be "a masterpiece of twentieth-century non-fiction" in his introduction to the New York Review Books edition of the book. On the back jacket cover of the same edition, James Dickey states that the book "transcends any 'nature writing' of our time," while Barry Lopez declares the book to be "one of the most beautifully written, carefully observed and evocative wildlife accounts I have ever read." Werner Herzog called it the "one book I would ask you to read if you want to make films," and said elsewhere "... it has prose of the caliber that we have not seen since Joseph Conrad."
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Bernard Newman (author) Bernard Charles Newman (8 May 1897 – 19 February 1968) was a British author of over 100 books, both fiction and non-fiction. An historian, he was considered an authority on spies, but also wrote travel books and on politics. His fiction included mystery novels, science fiction and children's books.
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Crichton Porteous Leslie Crichton Porteous (1901–1991) was an author (writing under the name of Crichton Porteous) of fiction and non-fiction – books, articles and short stories – many of them about life in the Peak District of northern England, and often set in specific Peak locations ("Toad Hole" and "Broken River", for example, are set in the Derwent Valley).
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James Crumley James Arthur Crumley (October 12, 1939 – September 17, 2008) was the author of violent hardboiled crime novels and several volumes of short stories and essays, as well as published and unpublished screenplays. He has been described as "one of modern crime writing's best practitioners", who was "a patron saint of the post-Vietnam private eye novel" and a cross between Raymond Chandler and Hunter S. Thompson. His book "The Last Good Kiss" has been described as "the most influential crime novel of the last 50 years."
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Frederick Sadleir Brereton Frederick Sadleir Brereton CBE (5 August 1872 – 12 August 1957) was a decorated soldier and an author of children's books on heroic deeds conducted in the name of the British Empire. Brereton was a prolific author. By the time he died he had written over 40 books.
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Barbara Grunes Barbara Grunes is the author or co-author of 50+ cookbooks. A food consultant and historian, Grunes has also written on food and dining for the "Chicago Sun Times" and food consultant to the State of Illinois. She is well known as an effusive and popular cooking teacher and food writer in the Chicago area. Barbara Grunes is the most published cook book writer in history putting the Midwest on the culinary map and making flour-less chocolate cake a household phrase.
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Ken Uston Ken Uston (January 12, 1935 – September 19, 1987) was a famous blackjack player, strategist, and author, credited with popularizing the concept of team play at blackjack. During the early to mid-1970s he gained widespread notoriety for perfecting techniques to do team card counting in numerous casinos worldwide, earning millions of dollars from the casinos, with some bets as high as $12,000 on a single hand. He then became famous for being banned from casinos around the world, and thus became a master of disguise as he would adopt various costumes in order to conceal his true identity and still be able to play. He is also known for filing a high-profile lawsuit against these casinos, and successfully received a ruling from the New Jersey courts that absent a valid New Jersey Casino Commission regulation excluding card counters, casinos could not ban someone simply for counting cards at blackjack. In response, many casinos changed their systems, increasing the number of decks in games, or changing rules to increase the house edge. In the early 1980s, Uston also authored several popular books on video games and personal computers. He was the subject of a 1981 segment on "60 Minutes", and in 2005, he was the subject of the History Channel documentary, "The Blackjack Man".
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Michael Arditti Michael Arditti is an English writer. He has written eight novels to date, including "Easter", "The Enemy of the Good", "Jubilate" and "The Breath of Night". He has also written a collection of short stories, "Good Clean Fun", is a prolific literary critic and an occasional broadcaster for the BBC. Much of his work has explored issues of spirituality and sexuality, and he has been described by Philip Pullman as ‘Our best chronicler of the rewards and pitfalls of present day faith’.
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Fay Baker Fay Baker (born Fay Schwager; January 31, 1917 – December 8, 1987) was an American stage, film and television actress, and a successful author under the pen name Beth Holmes. Her novel, "The Whipping Boy", made the "Los Angeles Times" bestseller list in 1978. She also published, under her own name, "My Darling, Darling Doctors".
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Harold Brooks-Baker Harold Brooks Baker (later Brooks-Baker) (16 November 1933 – 5 March 2005), was an American-British financier, journalist and publisher, and self-proclaimed expert on genealogy.
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Todd Duncan (author) Todd Duncan is an American author and speaker. He founded the The Duncan Group, a mortgage sales training and consulting company, in 1992. According to "CNN", Todd Duncan is "the Tony Robbins of the mortgage industry." He is the author of 17 books, including the New York Times Bestsellers "Time Traps: Proven Strategies for Swamped Sales People" and "High Trust Selling: Make More Money In Less Time with Less Stress". His newest book, "The $6,000 Egg: The 10 New Golden Rules for Customer Service" deals with fostering client loyalty and generating referrals.
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Bill McCay Bill McCay is an American author and has written over seventy books in total. He has written five books for the "Stargate" franchise. His first "Stargate" book was released in 1995, two years before the premiere of "Stargate SG-1". Because of this, it does not fit with "SG-1" or the other Stargate spin offs.
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Chris Baker (writer) Christopher John Baker (born 1948) is a Thailand-based British writer who has made his home in Bangkok for more than 20 years. He is the co-author of "A History of Thailand", "Thaksin: The Business of Politics in Thailand", "Thailand's Boom and Bust", and "Thailand's Crisis", all written with his wife, Dr. Pasuk Phongpaichit. He was the principal writer of the United Nations Development Programme's "Thailand Human Development Report 2007: Sufficiency Economy and Human Development", which praised King Bhumibol Adulyadej's self-sufficient economy theory.
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Grave Descend Grave Descend is a novel written by Michael Crichton under the pseudonym John Lange. It was originally published in 1970, and later re-released in 2006 as part of the Hard Case Crime series. For this release, Michael Crichton did an overall revision of the text. The novel was nominated for the Edgar Award in 1971. Hard Case Crime will republish the novel under Crichton's name on October 29, 2013.
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List of books by John C. Maxwell The following is a list of books by John C. Maxwell. His books have sold more than nineteen million copies, with some on the New York Times Best Seller List. Some of his works have been translated to fifty languages. As of 2012, he has sold more than 20 million books in his career.
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Albert D. Cohen Albert Diamond Cohen, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} LLD (January 20, 1914 – November 21, 2011) was a Canadian entrepreneur, community builder, philanthropist, and Officer of the Order of Canada. He was Chairman, Co-President and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Gendis Inc. www.gendis.ca, a Toronto Stock Exchange listed Canadian real estate and investment company headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba. At one time, Gendis held a 51% stake in Sony of Canada and owned the SAAN Stores retail chain. He was married to Irena Cohen (née Kankova) from 1953 until his death, and they had three children: Anthony, James, and Anna-Lisa. He was the author of several books: "The Entrepreneurs: The Story of Gendis Inc"..."The Triangle of Success: The Gendis/Saan Story"..."The Story of SAAN"...and..."I.D.E.A." His latest and last book, published in the fall of 2010, was titled "Reminiscences of an Entrepreneur - How Sony came to Canada and then to the World in 1955". His interest and talent for writing stemmed out from his close personal friendship with the late British author Ian Fleming. He died peacefully at the age of 97 years, 10 months, in Winnipeg, Manitoba.