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Prolific Authors

who have written the most books on this subject
Plutarch, 2,309 books
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 400 books
14th Dalai Lama, 230 books
Thomas Merton, 203 books
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 188 books
Suetonius, 138 books
E. L. James, 132 books
R. H. Bruce Lockhart, 117 books
Jill C. Wheeler, 106 books
Mike Venezia, 104 books
Jeff Savage, 85 books
Joanne Mattern, 83 books
James Haskins, 79 books
Nathan Aaseng, 78 books
Sarah Tieck, 76 books
David A. Adler, 69 books
Kathleen Tracy, 69 books
Henri Troyat, 69 books
Stewart, Mark, 66 books
Benjamin Franklin, 64 books
Carol Greene, 63 books
Marco Polo, 61 books
Hal Marcovitz, 56 books
Bob Italia, 55 books
Ann Gaines, 52 books

Prominent Publishers

who have published the most books on this subject
Sine nomine, 6,172 editions
Oxford University Press, 2,003 editions
St. Martin's Press, 1,622 editions
Macmillan, 1,555 editions
Doubleday, 1,357 editions
Greenwood Press, 1,174 editions
Random House, 1,106 editions
Simon & Schuster, 998 editions
HarperCollins, 928 editions
Little, Brown, 880 editions
Penguin Books, 875 editions
Folcroft Library Editions, 831 editions
Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 807 editions
Thorndike Press, 804 editions
Viking, 774 editions
Knopf, 734 editions
Books for Libraries Press, 728 editions
Norwood Editions, 709 editions
Da Capo Press, 690 editions
Harper & Row, 685 editions

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