The Writers Who Wrote the Most in History

(brennan.day)

12 points | by bookofjoe 4 days ago

3 comments

  • recursivedoubts 1 hour ago
    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

    • bombcar 8 minutes ago
      When your job is to produce writings every week, you produce a ton of writings.

      About 15 volumes in I started to realize I’d read most of what he had to say; but it was still entertaining each time.

      Given his size, perhaps he was the Largest Language Model.

      • recursivedoubts 0 minutes ago
        lol, he must have plagarized himself so many times over the years
    • damontal 1 hour ago
      Except he referred to him as G.J. Chesterton.
      • antonvs 59 minutes ago
        I hear he was good friends with H.F. Wells.
  • slyall 22 minutes ago
    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)

  • codevark 4 days ago
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