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James Patterson is one of the most sold authors in the entire world with an estimated 260 million copies of his books being sold. James Patterson was born in Newburgh, New York City in the year 1947 and went on to receive a Bachelor of Arts in English from Manhattan College before finally getting a Masters of Arts in English from Vanderbilt University. He is most widely known for the Alex Cross series of books as well the Women’s Murder Club books. Patterson started his career in the advertising industry from which he retired in 1976. He devoted his time to writing after that. And boy, was that one of the best decisions ever! He published his first novel the very same year titled ‘The Thomas Berryman Number’. Over the years, he has been associated primarily with the Alex Cross series of books in which the protagonist, Alex Cross is a forensic psychologist formerly of the Washington DC Metropolitan Police and FBI and who now works as a private investigator. They are his most popular books till date and the series remains the best-selling mystery and crime series in the US over the past ten years. James Patterson has written over 76 novels since he took up writing since 1976 and has sold more than 260 million copies worldwide. He holds the New York Times record for having the highest number of hardcover fiction titles which is 76 till date. Apart from this, he also holds the Guinness Book of records for the same feat. A startling fact reveals that for every seventeen hardcover titles sold in the States, James Patterson has one title among that. A further statistic reveals that he has sold more books in the US in the last ten years than Stephen King, John Grisham and Dan Brown combined. Apart from holding the aforementioned records, he has also won many awards among which are the Edgar Award, the BCA Mystery Guild’s Thriller of the Year, the International Thriller of the Year and many more. He is also the first author ever to have a #1 book on the New York Times Adult and Children’s list at the same time. Apart from this, James Patterson has worked with a host of other writers such as Maxine Paetro, Andrew Gross and Peter De Jonge. He believes that working with different writers helps him to come up with new and different ideas and incites his creativity to new heights. You can get his books by visiting Book Chums at the link. http://www.bookchums.com Anju Batra is a writer based in India. She like to write on Social and cultural subject. She has writer lots of Articles on the subject of Free Ebook Library and Reading Lists.
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