The World’s Top 10 Earning Authors

No.  4 Bill O’Reilly — $28 million

This American television host has dedicated part of his time to writing some of the most intriguing political-fiction books. He has written 10 books, and earned with the bestseller “Killing Lincoln” $28 million. This book on a shocking assassination that changed America forever, was written by O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. Yet this author’s private life is quite controversial, as he sued in 2004 a former producer of The O’Reilly Factor, Andrea Mackris, with extortion charges, alleging that she had threatened a lawsuit unless he paid her more than $60 million. Consequently, Mackris sued O’Reilly for sexual harassment. Finally, they reached an out-of-court settlement and dropped all charges against each other.