Despite a half-century career as one of the world's top-selling authors, 38 books and a bulging bank account, Ken Follett told AFP he still worries about one of his readers struggling with a "dull" ...

Ross Perot, left, and Ken Follett, author of On Wings of Eagles, at EDS headquarters in 1983, stand with a portrait of Arthur "Bull" Simons, who led the raid that freed two EDS hostages from a prison ...

Later, in 1989, Follett released “The Pillars of the Earth,” a novel centered around the building of a medieval cathedral. It sold more than 29 million copies worldwide and was selected for Oprah’s ...

It has been more than 40 years since Ken Follett first topped bestseller lists with his classic World War II thriller, “Eye of the Needle.” He followed that success with crisp international thrillers ...

Ken Follett opens up about the pressure of keeping millions of readers hooked, his meticulous writing process, and why he still fears ‘boring bits’ — even after selling nearly 200 million books.

The forecast was calling for rain, and this, for Ken Follett, was a problem. In two days’ time, he was slated to lead a busload of sleepy reporters on a crack-of-dawn field trip to Stonehenge, the ...

The 76-year-old Welshman, who recently took French nationality, is in the final stages of a tour promoting his latest tome, the more than 600-page epic "Circle of Days". At a stage of life when most ...