Corín Tellado - from 1946-2006 she wrote over 5000 novellas and magazine short stories. She was listed in the 1994 Guinness World Records as having sold the most books written in Spanish, and in 1962 UNESCO declared her the most read Spanish writer after Cervantes.
L. Ron Hubbard, from 1934-'87, 1084 works in sci-fi, adventure, westerns mystery & religion.
Ishtiaq Ahmed published 800+ thrillers & crime novels in Urdu beginning in 1972 - and they continue coming out three years after his death in 2015!
Isaac Asimov was published 506 times in nine of the ten Dewey Decimal categories.
Jacob Appel has had 200+ works published, undeterred by the 21,000 rejection letters he has received.
Barbara Cartland was first published in 1922. There are 722 titles listed in her name. She holds the Guinness World Record for the most novels (23) written in a single year.
Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, a Polish author of the 1800's, published 200+ novels and 150 novellas, short stories and art reviews.
Nora Roberts is still going strong, 200+ novels so far.
R.L. Stine, author of Goosebumps and Fear Street, continues to crank 'em out. At one time he produced one book a month for each of those series.
Georges Simenon - the French icon, creator of Inspector Maigret, had more than 500+ books published.
S Rob has written over 350 books, almost all on the occult. Collectors agree he is the most prolific nonfiction occult author in the English language.
Rolf Kalmuczak - dead in 2007, he had more than 2900 works published in German - and used more than 100 pseudonyms!
Voltaire, who died in 1778, had more than 2000 plays, poems, novels, essays, historical and scientific works published. He wrote more than 20,000 letters!
From an article in the NY Post, edited by yours truly: The operators of La Guardia Airport are testing a robot security device that looks a little like R2D2. It rents for between $6500 and $8300 a month. Capabilities include video surveillance, the ability to broadcast recorded and live messages in the event of an incident, and the ability to ensure it avoids people and objects in its path. Here's a pic:
Good news on the economic front: Unemployment has dropped to 3.9%. In fairness, I decided to look up a figure the right used to criticize Obama's policies. The Labor Participation Rate is 62.8%, practically identical to where it was during the last three years of O.
My thanks to the gentlemen who each bought two books in Russian, to the woman who purchased one of Dr. Andrew Weil's books on sensible eating, and to Gary, who selected The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory.
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