{"id":20709,"date":"2023-11-25T03:02:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T09:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=20709"},"modified":"2023-10-07T10:18:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T16:18:58","slug":"prolific-authors-9-books-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/prolific-authors-9-books-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Prolific Authors \u2013 9 Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bookshelf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2220\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bookshelf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bookshelf.jpg 512w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bookshelf-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bookshelf-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bookshelf-90x90.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a>Way back in December of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/prolific-authors\/\">2011<\/a> (and again every other December since), we&#8217;ve taken a look at the authors I have read the most, dating back to high school.\u00a0 This year, since I\u2019ve far surpassed my reading output of any year on record, I thought it would be nice to take a deeper dive into those books I\u2019ve read through October. Since our last check-in, I\u2019ve read an additional 118 books, so there could be some movement over the past two years, but it\u2019s time to take another look and see if my \u201cfavorite\u201d authors have changed much in that time span.\u00a0 Today, we continue with the lone author I&#8217;ve read nine times, a decrease on one since 2021.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Jan Friedman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Known primarily for licensed works, Friedman first entered my world in 1990, thanks to a trio of <em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em> novels.\u00a0 There were another two in 1992 and then he reappeared in 1996 with another trio of <em>Lois &amp; Clark: The New Adventures of Superman<\/em> tie-ins.\u00a0 That was it until he reappeared on my radar in 2021, with yet another Next Gen entry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in December of\u00a02011 (and again every other December since), we&#8217;ve taken a look at the authors I have read the most, dating back to high school.\u00a0 This year, since I\u2019ve far surpassed my reading output of any year on record, I thought it would be nice to take a deeper dive into those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[4192,1574,5187],"class_list":["post-20709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-lois-clark","tag-michael-jan-friedman","tag-star-trek-the-next-generation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20709"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20739,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20709\/revisions\/20739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}