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The Writers Who Wrote the Most in History

13 pointsby bookofjoelast Wednesday at 9:25 PM8 commentsview on HN

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recursivedoubtstoday at 12:45 AM

lol i clicked on the article prepared to be angry that GK Chesterton wasn't mentioned and he was the first one mentioned. His collected works run to at least 37 volumes:

https://www.chesterton.org/store/product/volume-xxxvii/

i have the first four

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slyalltoday at 2:13 AM

Left out Charles Hamilton

It has been estimated by the researchers Lofts and Adley that Hamilton wrote around 100 million words or the equivalent of 1,200 average-length novels, making him the most prolific author in history. He is known to have created over 100 schools that were the subjects of his stories as well as writing many non-school stories. More than 5,000 of his stories have been identified, of which 3,100 were reprinted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hamilton_(writer)

codevarklast Wednesday at 9:53 PM

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