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Best-selling children's author (female, current)

Best-selling children's author (female, current)
Who
JK Rowling
What
12,736,955 unit(s) sold
Where
Not Applicable
When
31 December 2016

Harry Potter creator J K Rowling (b. Joanne Rowling, UK) was the best-selling female children's author in 2016, with estimated sales of 12,736,955 books across the year, according to Nielsen BookScan's global data. This also made her the best-selling children's writer overall in 2016.

This total includes sales of the script book for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which was co-written by J K Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany.