"According to Publishers Weekly, the best-selling books of the 1940s included books by Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, William L. Shirer, Winston Churchill, Pearl S. Buck, Richard Wright, and W. Somerset Maugham. As late as the 1970s, these names made the best-sellers list: Ernest Hemingway, Graham Greene, John Updike, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Chaim Potok, Saul Bellow, J.R.R. Tolkien, William Styron. In the 1990s, however, forty-one of the fifty best-selling books of the decade were written by these six authors: John Grisham, Stephen King, Danielle Steel, Michael Chrichton, Tom Clancy, and Mary Higgins Clark."