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You're right. But I'm afraid J. K. Rowling beats both Orwell and Dickens in this contest. :) https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=Orwell,Rowling,Shakespe

• LeifCarrotson 5y ago
  I suppose it depends on whether you, like the author of the linked article, implicitly define "words written about" as synonymous with "the flow of publications", translated to sales of mainstream hard-copy published books. Google Trends is one way, sure, but there's also Fanfiction.net, which contains some 8,932 entries in the Harry Potter category. Some of those are compilations, some are just a couple thousand words, but many are super-novels at hundreds of thousands of words. You don't have to do much math to realize that's orders of magnitude larger than five biographies and 'several' publishers eyeing the 20-year expiration.
  • bryanrasmussen 5y ago
    I think the internet favors newer books, as most people favor books by authors that are contemporaneous with them, and the internet allows all that writing that in previous generations would have been ephemeral and have a very short distribution to perhaps have greater permanence (perhaps not) but definitely a much wider distribution.