RE: RARA-AVIS: The Top Selling Gold Medal Authors

From: Ed Lynskey ( e_lynskey@yahoo.com)
Date: 09 Jun 2008


Fascinating. I'm surprised to see Peter Rabe ahead of Charles Williams and Harry Whittington. Didn't Jonas Ward write Westerns (talk about alliteration)?

Ed

--- On Mon, 6/9/08, Ron Clinton < clinton65@comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Ron Clinton < clinton65@comcast.net>
> Subject: RE: RARA-AVIS: The Top Selling Gold Medal Authors
> To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Monday, June 9, 2008, 3:08 PM
> I've never read any of Jonas Ward's or William
> Heuman's works. In fact,
> I've never even heard of Heuman (and Ward only rings a
> faint bell).
> Interesting to see both of them above Brewer and
> L'Amour.
>
> Ron C.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com] On
> > Behalf Of Jeff Vorzimmer
> > Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 10:54 AM
> > To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: RARA-AVIS: The Top Selling Gold Medal Authors
> >
> > For those on the list who might be interested. Here
> are the top 16 Gold
> Medal
> > authors based on the number of editions printed of all
> books:
> >
> > 1. John D. MacDonald
> > 2. Richard S. Prather
> > 3. Edward S. Aarons
> > 4. Donald Hamilton
> > 5. Stephen Marlowe
> > 6. Peter Rabe
> > 7. Vin Packer
> > 8. Wade Miller
> > 9. Charles Williams
> > 10. Jonas Ward
> > 11. Harry Whttington
> > 12. Philip Atlee
> > 13. William Heuman
> > 14. Bruno Fischer
> > 15. Louis L'amour
> > 16. Gil Brewer
> >
> > I crunch numbers when I'm bored.
> > Jeff

      



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