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It won the Edgar Award for best first novel from the Mystery Writers of America, but sold only about 10,000 copies. His first novel, The Thomas Berryman Number, about a Nashville newspaperman on a murderer’s trail, was rejected by 31 publishers before Little, Brown published it, in 1976. Walter Thompson, the giant international agency, where he was also creative director and led the “Aren’t You Hungry?” campaign for Burger King, while writing fiction on the side. The first 25 years of Patterson’s career were spent in advertising, culminating with his tenure as C.E.O. The family home in Palm Beach-“kind of obnoxious,” Patterson says. When I had a chance to ask Patterson about that figure, he at first said, “I don’t know,” and then followed up with “Yeah, probably.” Forbes estimates his income for the year ending last June at $90 million.
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Altogether, he has produced more than 130 separate works-the “books by” page in his latest novels actually takes up three full pages. in 2013, books by Patterson accounted for one out of every 26. Of all the hardcover fiction sold in the U.S. With 305 million copies of his books in print worldwide, Patterson is the great white shark of novelists, a relentless writing machine who has to keep swimming forward in order to feed, and who, together with his army of about two dozen credited co-writers, has been the planet’s best-selling author since 2001 (ahead of J. Perhaps no author in literary history has more seamlessly melded commerce and creepiness to create an international brand, one that has transformed a wide swath of the publishing industry and given Patterson not only a Rockefeller’s river view but a Rockefeller’s bank account to boot.
It seems somehow fitting that James Patterson, the advertising Mad Man turned impresario of the global thriller industry, spends his summers perched high above the Hudson River in Westchester County, halfway between Don Draper’s Ossining and Washington Irving’s Sleepy Hollow, where the Headless Horseman once roamed the roads by night.