JK Rowling: decade's most successful author
USA Today's Best-Selling Books List notes the achievements that JK Rowling has made in the field of literature and how she has grown to be the decade's most successful author:

Before Rowling there was J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, a best-selling trilogy before it hit the big screen. But Tolkien "appealed more to the college crowd than to kids," says Gayle Feldman, whose study of the book business, Best and Worst of Times, was published last year. Feldman says Rowling "did nothing less than revive the pre-radio, pre-movies, pre-TV tradition of the family-reading book," the kind popularized by Charles Dickens and Walter Scott that were "both classic best seller and best-selling classic."

According to the article, JK Rowling has landed five of the top six spots on the list of the 100 best-selling books of the past 10 years.
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If I had to pick author of the decade I'd have to go with Michael Moore. Although he writes non-fiction...he is a genius and although some people claim he's a propagandist, no one has disproven his claims.

JKR is great...but non fiction is way more interesting than fiction IMHO (Truth is stranger than fiction:P)


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I'd vote Orson Scott Card...quite arguable the best sci-fi writer alive...note i say alive. He has written so many books, and they are all great. I am disapointed that she was made the author of the "decade". She has written what, 1 book this decade? One hit wonder(thus far)...The books are great(I don't deny that). But i sence too much "politicness" in their choice...they are choosing the most popular, over maybe what would be considered the "best".

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Not much of a girlfriend, Never seem to get alot.
Take a gum boat, across the water, Like to see america.
See the girls in california, Im hoping it's going to come true,
Cause there is not alot I can do."
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Well, I got the idea they meant Author of the decade as in the past 10 years from the date that the award was given, as apposed to every 10 calender years (Example: 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010, ect). If that is the case I think all 7 of her books (counting the 2 chairity books) were written in the past 10 years.

I can't argue one way or another about author of the decade because as much as I like to read, I don't read very often so I don't know most author's works.

Now, Locke, do you mean to say the book (OotP) is a one hit wonder, or the author (JK Rowling) is a one hit wonder? I ask this because it sounded to me like you meant the book is, so I'll start on that. If you meant the book is a one hit wonder, well I obviously don't know every single top 10, top 20, or top whatever list out there, but it's a year later (almost) and the book is still prety popular from what I gather. Same with all her other books. Now I did get the idea that you meant the book as a one hit wonder, but if you did mean the author, well she has already published 7 books that made it to a hell of a lot of number one spots on top 10 lists, so I wouldn't exactly call her that. Even if you refer to the Harry Potter franchise itself as the one hit, well assuming she continues to write about different things after Harry Potter people will buy and snag up anythiong she publishes after HP just because her name is on the cover. So assuming you would go the stretch and refer to the franchise itself as one hit, then that is still wrong if she does write something else. And I can proove that people would just by compairing her to other people. *Starts to think to himself.* Okay, compairing to one person because I can't come up with more then one name because I don't read often. Anne Rice. A LOT of people (fans and critics alike) say everything in her Vampire series after the third book is prety much garbage (I'm only on her 4th book so I can't state an opinion 1 way or another yet). Yet she still makes top 10 lists with every new book. I think JK would be the same way.

Wow. I just reread that. I'm way over tired so if it sounded like a lecture or me nagging, that isn't what I meant lol. Just stating my opinion (and rambeling away with it).

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I found a picture that had to do with this on Muggle Net. It was from USA Today I beleive.

 

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