Does anyone know who the best selling author was in the 1990's?

(CNN) -- What's the importance of the number 60,742,288?

That's the number of best-selling books author John Grisham sold in the 1990s.

Grisham, whose titles include "The Pelican Brief," "The Firm," "The Chamber," and "The Runaway Jury," is the best-selling author of the 1990s, according to a Top 100 list compiled from data submitted by book publishers to Publisher Weekly magazine.

60,742,288 John Grisham

38,300,000 Stephen King

37,500,000 Danielle Steel

27,400,000 Michael Crichton

25,900,000 Tom Clancy


http://archives.cnn.com/1999/books/news/12/31/1990.sellers/index.html

http://archives.cnn.com/1999/books/news/12/31/1990.sellers/index.html

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http://www.ipl.org/div/farq/bestsellerFARQ.html

John Grisham