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At least the giants, like Jacqueline Susann and Harold Robbins.

• kksskkss 8y ago
  Never heard of those and I do read a lot so they hardly qualify as giants even though they have had their share of success. Stephen King, on the other hand, is probably not going to be forgotten any time soon (I find his books dull tbh but nobody cares about my opinion :).
  • mijamo 8y ago
    Posterity does not work like that. Many authors who were popular disappeared completely from memory, while other who were relatively unknown became extremely popular decades after their death. Academics play a major role in what we remember about more than 100 years ago, much more than actual success when the book was published. Octave Mirbeau was much much more popular than Marcel Proust when they were both active, but you probably know much more about the latter.
• thrower123 8y ago
  Who the hell are they? Honestly, Conan Doyle is a Victorian Tom Clancy or Robert Ludlum, rather than any high-falutin literary author. That's a big part of why he is still remembered.
• BaryonBundle 8y ago
  I believe this to be a reference to a quote from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.