Question: What was the year of birth of the author of the best selling Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ?

text: List of best-selling books
List of best-selling individual books -- Between 50 million and 100 million copies

This page provides lists of best-selling individual books and book series to date and in any language. Best selling refers to the estimated number of copies sold of each book, rather than the number of books printed or currently owned. Comics and textbooks are not included in this list. The books are listed according to the highest sales estimate as reported in reliable, independent sources. This list is incomplete because there are many books, such as The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, or A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, that are commonly cited as best-selling books yet have no reliable sales figures. Similarly, many notable book series that sold very widely are poorly documented (Land of Oz) or consist of multiple sub-series (Tom Swift). According to Guinness World Records as of 1995, the Bible is the best-selling book of all time, with an estimated 5 billion copies sold and distributed. The Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, also known as the Little Red Book, has produced a wide array of sales and distribution figures - with estimates ranging from 800 million to over 6.5 billion printed volumes, with some claiming the distribution ran into the billions and some citing over a billion official volumes between 1966 and 1969 alone as well as untold numbers of unofficial local reprints and unofficial translations. Exact print figures for these and other books may also be missing or unreliable since these kinds of books may be produced by many different and unrelated publishers, in some cases over many centuries. All books of a religious, ideological, philosophical or political nature have thus been excluded from the below lists of best-selling books for these reasons. Having sold more than 500 million copies worldwide, Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling is the best-selling book series in history. The first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, has sold in excess of 120 million copies, making it one of the best-selling books of all time.
Book Author ( s ) Original language First published Approximate sales Genre
The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe C. S. Lewis English 1950 85 million fantasy
She : A History of Adventure H. Rider Haggard English 1887 83 million adventure
The Adventures of Pinocchio ( Le avventure di Pinocchio ) Carlo Collodi Italian 1881 > 80 million fantasy
Vardi Wala Gunda Ved Prakash Sharma Hindi 1992 > 80 million detective
The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown English 2003 80 million mystery thriller
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets J. K. Rowling English 1998 77 million fantasy
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban J. K. Rowling English 1999 65 million fantasy
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire J. K. Rowling English 2000 65 million fantasy
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix J. K. Rowling English 2003 65 million fantasy
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince J. K. Rowling English 2005 65 million fantasy
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows J. K. Rowling English 2007 65 million fantasy
The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger English 1951 65 million coming-of-age
The Alchemist ( O Alquimista ) Paulo Coelho Portuguese 1988 65 million fantasy
The Bridges of Madison County Robert James Waller English 1992 60 million romance
Ben-Hur : A Tale of the Christ Lew Wallace English 1880 50 million historical
You Can Heal Your Life Louise Hay English 1984 50 million self-improvement
One Hundred Years of Solitude ( Cien años de soledad ) Gabriel García Márquez Spanish 1967 50 million magic realism
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov English 1955 50 million general
Heidi Johanna Spyri German 1880 50 million children 's fiction
The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care Dr. Benjamin Spock English 1946 50 million manual