# Who Are the Least Prolific Best Selling Authors? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 19, 2016, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-prolific-best-selling-authors/746563 "2016-02-19T16:38:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2016, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-prolific-best-selling-authors/746563/41 "2016-02-22T08:16:12Z")
Anonymous who wrote “My Secret Life.” ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2016, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-prolific-best-selling-authors/746563/42 "2016-02-22T10:35:27Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Ken Kesey’s only published works are One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Sometimes a Great Notion,. Kesey also wrote [Sailor Song](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailor_Song) 28 years after Sometimes A Great Notion But yeah, I thought of him immediately as SAGN is one of the best books I’ve ever read. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2016, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-prolific-best-selling-authors/746563/43 "2016-02-22T14:43:21Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > Anonymous who wrote “My Secret Life.” Nah, there’s lotsa stuff by Anonymous. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2016, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-prolific-best-selling-authors/746563/44 "2016-02-22T17:47:38Z")
Including this political best-seller: [Amazon.com](http://www.amazon.com/Primary-Colors-Novel-Politics/dp/0812976479/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1456163473&sr=1-1&keywords=primary+colors+book) ---
**Author:** ![btcg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@btcg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/btcg)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2016, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-prolific-best-selling-authors/746563/45 "2016-02-24T05:55:32Z")
Lately… becoming David Baldacci. His last few books have really sucked. The Amos Decker books are practically unreadable. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2016, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-prolific-best-selling-authors/746563/46 "2016-02-24T08:08:28Z")
> [@btcg](#): > > Lately… becoming David Baldacci. His last few books have really sucked. The Amos Decker books are practically unreadable. Baldacci has published more than 30 novels and he still puts out 1 or 2 every year. If he’s not prolific, I don’t know who is. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2016, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-prolific-best-selling-authors/746563/47 "2016-02-24T08:35:12Z")
Anne Frank > [@Finagle](#): > > Patrick Rothfuss wrote highly regarded “The Name of the Wind” in 2007, followed it up, very slowly, with “The Wise Man’s Fear” in 2011, and is now giving George R. R. Martin a run for his money in the “most time until the next sequel” competition. > > He seems to have written very little else. He’s written three books in 10 years. Not super prolific output, but not terrible. He does seem to have a bit of a Martin problem, in that he seems to like being a famous fantasy author a lot more fun then sitting down and writing another fantasy book. But he still has some output, certainly not in the same league as other authors mentioned here, who just turned out one best-seller [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-prolific-best-selling-authors/746563.md?page=2)