The highest paid authors of 2016
You may not recognize their faces, but it's their hands and their words that are behind many of the best-selling novels that you have read and reread.
According to Forbes, these authors collectively made $269 million over the last 12 months, through book sales, as well as television and movie adaptions.
Scroll through the gallery to see who topped the list.
All figures in U.S. dollars.