Patricia Cornwell: Crime Writer with $25 Million Net Worth

Patricia Cornwell is a contemporary American crime writer with a net worth of $25 million. She is famous for her novels featuring Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a medical examiner, which have sold over 100 million copies. Cornwell began her career as a reporter for The Charlotte Observer and later worked for six years at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of Virginia. Besides the Scarpetta series, she has written three pseudo-police fictions set in North Carolina, Virginia, and off the mid-Atlantic coast.

Cornwell is also known for her self-financed search for evidence to support her theory that Walter Sickert was Jack the Ripper, which she wrote about in her book, “Portrait of a Killer—Jack the Ripper: Case Closed.” Cornwall has had her troubles with the law, including a drunk driving conviction in 1993 and a plagiarism accusation in a legal battle that she ultimately won. Cornwell has been open about her struggles with anorexia nervosa, depression, and bipolar disorder, which began in her late teens.

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