by recursivedoubts
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- lol i clicked on the article prepared to be angry that GK Chesterton wasn't mentioned and he was the first one mentioned. His collected works run to at least 37 volumes:
https://www.chesterton.org/store/product/volume-xxxvii/
i have the first four
- Not my "cup of tea", but certainly a record holder is Agatha Christie whose 66 detective novels and 15 short-story collections have sold over two billion copies, an amount surpassed only by the Bible and the works of William Shakespeare.
In years past, my preferred crime writer was Walter Mosley, who wrote the Easy Rawlins series among his output of 70 novels. A Jewish African-American, he was at one time a computer programmer. He turned to novel writing at 35 years of age.
by 6LLvveMx2koXfwn
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- More importantly:
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- Nicolae Iorga is not on that list, has around 1100 published books and between 12k - 25k articles
- Xianxia authors write a mind-boggling amount, probably because some are paid by the character. Surprised Bertrand Russel didn't make the cut.
- Agatha Christie was also a high-volume writer; apparently, this was due to unreasonably demands in her contracts with her publisher, and she hated to be thus pushed.
by fellowniusmonk
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- Interesting how much of this writing was dictated.
by chrisofspades
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- Surprised that Isaac Asimov wasn't mentioned.
- Thanks for this. I especially enjoyed the section on word counting software and word linking games.
- Left out Charles Hamilton
It has been estimated by the researchers Lofts and Adley that Hamilton wrote around 100 million words or the equivalent of 1,200 average-length novels, making him the most prolific author in history. He is known to have created over 100 schools that were the subjects of his stories as well as writing many non-school stories. More than 5,000 of his stories have been identified, of which 3,100 were reprinted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hamilton_(writer)
- Another to add to this list would be Isaac Asimov. Most well known as a Science Fiction writer, he actual wrote over 500 books (mostly non-fiction) on a wide variety of subjects.
by Ozzie_osman
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- "writers who wrote the most in history"
Proceeds to ignore Eastern writers (Arab, Chinese, Persian) who wrote just as much or more.
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