DANIELLE STEEL — $385 MILLION
American novelist Danielle Steel is one of the most prolific writers with 141 novels to her credit. That explains her $385-million net worth. She mostly wrote romantic dramas and a few children’s fiction. Almost 800 million copies of her books have been sold across the world. She has been a New York Times bestselling author for 381 consecutive weeks which in itself is a world record and has been entered in the Guinness Book Of World Records. She lives in a Spreckels Mansion built in 1913 in San Francisco.