JAMES PATTERSON, NET WORTH – $900 MILLION
Words can be very powerful. It can create worlds, inspire revolutions, and in this case, change one man’s life forever. James Patterson was born in New York back in 1947. He had humble roots and came from a working-class family. Nonetheless, he worked hard early on and graduated summa cum laude with a degree in English from Vanderbilt University. Funnily enough, he didn’t dive into writing right away. He spent a few years as an advertising executive before retiring in 1996. This was when he found enough time to go back to his first love: writing.
As they say, it is never too late to start writing one’s story and for James, it paid off big. His first novel was The Thomas Berryman Number, which was published in 1976. Since then, he has written 147 novels and had over 114 New York Times Best Sellers.
