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I hate to say it ... Stephen King.
by lazlee 3y ago
I hate to say it ... Stephen King.
- billfruit 3y agoNot that sure. Look at the best selling authors of the 1920s, they aren't widely known anymore.
- hotnfresh 3y agoIt's possible the film version of The Shining will have better recognition than the name Stephen King, in just a few decades. That's been the fate of a lot of once-ultra-popular early 20th century authors whose works were made into still-well-known films. Might happen to him, too.
- JackFr 3y agoEdna Ferber. The movies Cimarron, Giant and Showboat definitely more well known than her novels on which they were based.
- kaesar14 3y agoWell hasn’t he been a best selling author for 4 decades now?
- lazlee 3y agoYou under estimate the lasting power of a good ghost story. You need a good example? Edgar Allan Poe.
- retrac 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publishers_Weekly_list_of_bestselling_novels_in_the_United_States_in_the_1920s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publishers_Weekly_list_of_best... Sinclair Lewis has multiple titles listed - best-selling author of the 1920s - later a Nobel Prize winner in literature. I'm not familiar with a lot of those books, admittedly. But most books in the top 10 for those years are notable enough, that they have their own Wikipedia article. "All Quiet on the Western Front" and "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" in particular are highly influential works. They've had movies etc. made and are surely familiar titles to the average American, even if they may not have read them.