About the Author
J. K Rowling is a British author novelist, screenwriter and film producer best known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series. She was born on July 31, 1965. The books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, and sold more than 400 million copies! Her full name is Joanne Kathleen Rowling. She calls herself “Jo.”
Born in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, Rowling was working as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International when she conceived the idea for the Harry Potter series while on a delayed train from Manchester to London in 1990. Rowling’s mother died and the birth of her first child and, she got divorced from her first husband, until she finished her first novels which was: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, in 1997. There were six sequels, the last, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, in 2007. Since then, Rowling has written four books for adult readers, The Casual Vacancy (2012) and—under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith—the crime fiction novels The Cuckoo’s Calling (2013), The Silkworm (2014) and Career of Evil (2015). Rowling was announced as the 12th richest woman in United Kingdom, her fortune estimated to 560 million euros!
She has 3 children and she lives in UK.