JOHN GRISHAM — $350 MILLION
The author who wrote best-selling thrillers like A Time To Kill, Pelican Brief, The Client, and The Rainmaker, among others is none other than John Grisham. He is a lawyer by profession which must have helped him get into the nitty-gritty of a legal thriller. Several of his books have been made into major motion pictures. He deserves to enjoy the money he made from writing all those novels and he does — a farmhouse in Mississippi and a luxury apartment in Chapel Hill are his big assets.