List of prolific writers
Prolific writers
Notes Authors with more than 100 books are considered for inclusion. Asimov celebrated his birthday on 2 January but his true date of birth is unclear.

List of prolific writers

Section Title: Prolific writers
Table Section Text: Notes Authors with more than 100 books are considered for inclusion. Asimov celebrated his birthday on 2 January but his true date of birth is unclear.

Name	Language	Birth	Death	First publication	Last publication	Published works	Notes

Corín Tellado	Spanish	25 April 1927	11 April 2009	1946	2006	4000+	She wrote over 5000 novellas and magazine's short stories. She was listed in the 1994 Guinness World Records as having sold the most books written in Spanish, and earlier in 1962 UNESCO declared her the most read Spanish writer after Miguel de Cervantes.

Rolf Kalmuczak	German	17 April 1938	10 March 2007	2900+	More than 100 pseudonyms

Lope de Vega	Spanish	25 November 1562	27 August 1635	2200~	Playwright

L. Ron Hubbard	English	13 March 1911	24 January 1986	1934	1987	1,084	Science fiction, adventure, westerns, mystery, religion.

Ishtiaq Ahmed	Urdu	1944	17 November 2015	1972	Continuous	800+	Spy Thriller Crime Series

Edwy S. Brooks	English	11 November 1889	2 December 1965	1907	1966	800+	Brooks published his first short story, in July 1907, when he was seventeen.

Enid Blyton	English	11 August 1897	28 November 1968	1922	1968	762	Children's literature, adventure,mystery,fantasy.

Barbara Cartland (bibliography)	English	9 July 1901	21 May 2000	1923	722	Holds the Guinness World Record for the most novels (23) written in a single year

István Nemere	Hungarian	8 November 1944	Living	1974	701

Jallaludin Suyuti	Arabic	1445	1505	700	Islamic Ideological Books, Fiqh, Sufism and Tafseer Works including a six volume Tafseer and a three volume tafseer

Andrew Murray	English	9 May 1828	18 January 1917	1907	1966	240	Mostly Christian devotional books.

Muhammad Muhiyyudin Ibn ul Arabi	Arabic	26 July 1165	8 November 1240	240	Mystical Islamic Books e.g. A 7 volume Futuhat e Makkiya

Abu Hamid Al Ghazali	Arabic	1058	1111	200	Fiqh, Sufism and Tafseer

Isaac Asimov (bibliography)	English	2 January 1920	6 April 1992	506	Published in 9 of the 10 Dewey Decimal System categories

Jacob M. Appel	English	21 February 1973	Living	1998	200+	Has also received 21,000 rejection letters.

Meish Goldish	English	Unknown	Living	1989?	300+	Mostly books for schoolchildren

Kyokutei Bakin	Japanese	4 July 1767	1 December 1848	470

Ursula Bloom	English	1892	1984	1922	500+

John Creasey	English	17 September 1908	9 June 1973	600+	More than 10 pseudonyms

Terrance Dicks	English	10 May 1935	Living	1974	223	Mainly children's books. Includes 75+ based on the television series Doctor Who, for which he was a former script editor.

Darya Dontsova	Russian	7 June 1952	Living	140+	A bestselling Russian author of detective novels and kitchen books.

Alexandre Dumas	French	24 July 1802	5 December 1870	277

Howard R. Garis	English	25 April 1873	6 November 1962	500+	Member of the Stratemeyer Syndicate

Charles Garvice	English	24 August 1850	1 March 1920	150+

Charles Hamilton (bibliography)	English	8 August 1876	24 December 1961	1894	1961	1,200	Estimated to have written 100,000,000 words using around 20 pseudonyms, primarily for boys' weekly magazines, including public-school stories

Prentiss Ingraham	English	28 December 1843	16 August 1904	1,000	Wrote around 600 novels and 400 novelettes

Nicolae Iorga	Romanian etc.	17 January 1871	27 November 1940	1886~	1940	1,359	Another count has "1300 volumes and 25000 articles"

Józef Ignacy Kraszewski	Polish	28 February 1812	1887	350+	200+ novels and 150 novellas, short stories, and art reviews

Kathleen Lindsay	English	1903	1973	900+	11 pseudonyms

Paul Little	English	1915	1987	700+	Many pseudonyms

L. T. Meade	English	1854	1914	300+

Jacob Neusner (bibliography)	English	28 July 1932	8 October 2016	1962	950+

Lauran Paine	English	25 February 1916	1 December 2001	900+

Wolfgang Hohlbein	German	15 August 1953	Living	1982	(Active)	220+	Fantasy novels

Nora Roberts	English	10 October 1950	Living	1981	(Active)	200+	Romance novels, published under at least four different names

Mihail Sadoveanu	Romanian	5 November 1880	19 October 1961	1904	1952	120	The count covers novels and short story collections

Mohammad Shirazi	Arabic and Persian	1928	2001	1953~	2001	1,061	He made contributions in various fields ranging from jurisprudence and theology to politics, economics, law, sociology and human rights.

Georges Simenon	French	13 February 1903	4 September 1989	1921	500+

R. L. Stine	English	8 October 1943	Living	1992	330+	The best-selling children's author of all time as of 2004, Stine estimates that he has over 330 children's books, including the Goosebumps and Fear Street series.

Annie Shepherd Swan	English	8 July 1859	17 June 1943	1878	1943	200+	Wrote novels, serials, short stories and other works of fiction

Surender Mohan Pathak	Hindi	19 February 1940	Living	1959	250+	Wrote over 250 novellas in crime fiction in India. He is known as a Grand Master of Hindi crime fiction.

Ryoki Inoue	Portuguese	22 July 1946	Living	1986	1000+	Brazilian surgeon turned pulp novel author, acknowledged by Guinness as world's most prolific writer. Wrote almost a thousand novels in 6 years, under his own name or 39 pseudonyms.

Dr. Krishna N. Sharma	English and Hindi	24 December 1984	Living	2005	(Active)	132 as of 2017	He writes books on health, medical, music and literature.

Chico Xavier	Portuguese	2 April 1910	30 June 2002	1932	500+	Brazilian spiritist medium whose works are attributed to be psycographies written by spirits. He wrote over 500 books in many different areas of knowledge.

Manuel Jacinto Coelho	Portuguese	30 December 1903	13 January 1991	1935	1991	1,000	Brazilian leader of a religion called Cultura Racional ("Rational Culture"). For 56 years, he wrote a one-thousand-volume encyclopedia called Universo em Desencanto ("Disenchanting Universe"), which covers a very wide range of subjects.

Juan Lozano Rico [es]	Spanish	1933	1952	1983	800+	He wrote over 800 novellas mainly under the pseudonym of Carlos de Santander.

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)	French	21 November 1694	30 May 1778	1718	1778	2000+	Voltaire was a versatile and prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays and historical and scientific works.

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