Let me explain myself. Many of the superstar, household name authors (Stephen King, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, etc) rose to the top of their profession relatively quickly, and managed to stay in the public eye for decades. George RR Martin, meanwhile, was never quite obscure - he's had a healthy career both as an author and a screenwriter for a while - but was only catapulted into literary superstardom relatively late into his career, largely due to the success of Game of Thrones.
So, who are some other authors, particularly authors of genre fiction, who could have plausibly made that transition? That is, an OTL author with a decent-to-impressive body of work stretching out over a long period of time, who could have joined the ranks of the Kings and Rowlings of the world based on a successful adaptation of one of their works. Maybe Robert Jordan, in a world where a Wheel of Time movie was produced around the time of the LOTR movies?
(Also, I'm not talking about posthumous notoriety of the sort that Lovecraft has received - this needs to happen within the author's lifetime, preferably during some late stage of their actual career.)
So, who are some other authors, particularly authors of genre fiction, who could have plausibly made that transition? That is, an OTL author with a decent-to-impressive body of work stretching out over a long period of time, who could have joined the ranks of the Kings and Rowlings of the world based on a successful adaptation of one of their works. Maybe Robert Jordan, in a world where a Wheel of Time movie was produced around the time of the LOTR movies?
(Also, I'm not talking about posthumous notoriety of the sort that Lovecraft has received - this needs to happen within the author's lifetime, preferably during some late stage of their actual career.)