88 Facts About JK Rowling

JK Rowling's wrote Harry Potter, a seven-volume children's fantasy series published from 1997 to 2007.

JK Rowling's writes Cormoran Strike, an ongoing crime fiction series, as Robert Galbraith.

JK Rowling's wrote while living on state assistance as a single parent, deeply affected by her mother's death.

JK Rowling concluded the Harry Potter series with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Many reviewers see JK Rowling's writing as conventional; some regard her portrayal of gender and social division as regressive.

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JK Rowling's has been appointed to the Order of the British Empire and made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature and philanthropy.

JK Rowling's co-founded the charity Lumos and established the Volant Charitable Trust, named after her mother.

JK Rowling's charitable giving centres on medical causes and supporting at-risk women and children.

JK Rowling's chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother, and because of the ease of pronunciation of two consecutive letters.

Joanne JK Rowling was born on 31 July 1965 at Cottage Hospital in Yate, Gloucestershire.

JK Rowling became part of Rolls-Royce, and he worked his way into management as a chartered engineer.

JK Rowling's began at St Michael's Church of England Primary School in Winterbourne when she was five.

When JK Rowling was about nine, the family purchased the historic Church Cottage in Tutshill.

In 1974, JK Rowling began attending the nearby Church of England School.

JK Rowling's later described herself during this period as "the epitome of a bookish child – short and squat, thick National Health glasses, living in a world of complete daydreams".

JK Rowling was inspired by her favourite teacher, Lucy Shepherd, who taught the importance of structure and precision in writing.

Smith writes that JK Rowling "craved to play heavy electric guitar", and describes her as "intelligent yet shy".

When she was a young teenager, JK Rowling's great-aunt gave her Hons and Rebels, the autobiography of the civil rights activist Jessica Mitford.

Anne JK Rowling was diagnosed with a "virulent strain" of multiple sclerosis when she was 34 or 35 and Jo was 15, and had to give up her job.

JK Rowling later said "home was a difficult place to be", and that her teenage years were unhappy.

JK Rowling's began to smoke, took an interest in alternative rock, and adopted Siouxsie Sioux's back-combed hair and black eyeliner.

JK Rowling took A-levels in English, French and German, achieving two As and a B and was named head girl at Wyedean.

JK Rowling's applied to Oxford University in 1982 but was rejected.

JK Rowling always wanted to be a writer, but chose to study French and the classics at the University of Exeter for practical reasons, influenced by her parents who thought job prospects would be better with evidence of bilingualism.

JK Rowling's later stated that Exeter was not initially what she expected but that she enjoyed herself after she met more people like her.

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JK Rowling's was an average student at Exeter, described by biographers as prioritising her social life over her studies, and lacking ambition and enthusiasm.

JK Rowling recalls doing little work at university, preferring to read Dickens and Tolkien.

JK Rowling's earned a BA in French from Exeter, graduating in 1987 after a year of study in Paris.

JK Rowling's began writing adult novels while working as a temp, although they were never published.

JK Rowling's described her time in Manchester, where she worked for the Chamber of Commerce and at Manchester University in temp jobs, as a "year of misery".

JK Rowling's later said that the Mirror of Erised is about her mother's death, and noted an "evident parallelism" between Harry confronting his own mortality and her life.

Five months after arriving in Porto, JK Rowling met the Portuguese television journalist Jorge Arantes in a bar and found that they shared an interest in Jane Austen.

In late 1993, with a draft of Harry Potter in her suitcase, JK Rowling moved with her daughter to Edinburgh, Scotland, planning to stay with her sister until Christmas.

JK Rowling's later described her economic status as being as "poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless".

On 15 March 1994, JK Rowling sought an action of interdict; the interdict was granted and Arantes returned to Portugal.

Early in the year, JK Rowling began to experience a deep depression and sought medical help when she contemplated suicide.

JK Rowling's filed for divorce on 10 August 1994 and the divorce was finalised on 26 June 1995.

JK Rowling wanted to finish the book before enrolling in a teacher training course, fearing she might not be able to finish once she started the course.

JK Rowling's often wrote in cafes, including Nicolson's, part-owned by her brother-in-law.

Still needing money and expecting to make a living by teaching, JK Rowling began a teacher training course in August 1995 at Moray House School of Education after completing her first novel.

JK Rowling's earned her teaching certificate in July 1996 and began teaching at Leith Academy.

JK Rowling completed Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in June 1995.

JK Rowling recalls Cunningham telling her, "You'll never make any money out of children's books, Jo.

JK Rowling wrote six sequels, which follow Harry's adventures at Hogwarts with friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley and his attempts to defeat Lord Voldemort, who killed Harry's parents when he was a child.

JK Rowling received the news that the US rights were being auctioned at the Bologna Children's Book Fair.

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JK Rowling's bought a flat in Edinburgh with the money from the sale.

JK Rowling wanted Harry Potter and the School of Magic; as a compromise Rowling suggested Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

JK Rowling accepted the offer with the provision that the studio only produce Harry Potter films based on books she authored, while retaining the right to final script approval, and some control over merchandising.

Steve Kloves wrote the screenplays for all but the fifth film, with JK Rowling's assistance, ensuring that his scripts kept to the plots of the novels.

JK Rowling's began attending a Church of Scotland congregation, where Jessica was christened, around the time she was writing Harry Potter.

JK Rowling has stated that she believes in God, but has experienced doubt, and that her struggles with faith play a part in her books.

JK Rowling bought Killiechassie House and its estate in Perthshire, Scotland, and on 26 December 2001, the couple had a small, private wedding there, officiated by an Episcopalian priest who travelled from Edinburgh.

JK Rowling denied that she was a billionaire in a 2005 interview.

JK Rowling's was named the world's highest paid author by Forbes in 2008, 2017 and 2019.

In mid-2011, JK Rowling left Christopher Little Literary Agency and followed her agent Neil Blair to the Blair Partnership.

JK Rowling represented her for the publication of The Casual Vacancy, released in September 2012 by Little, Brown and Company.

At its London premiere, JK Rowling confirmed that she would not write any more Harry Potter books.

JK Rowling collaborated with writer Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany.

JK Rowling released The Ickabog for free online in mid-2020, during the COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom.

JK Rowling's began writing it in 2009 but set it aside to focus on other works including Casual Vacancy.

JK Rowling's said Mitford had "been my heroine since I was 14 years old, when I overheard my formidable great-aunt discussing how Mitford had run away at the age of 19 to fight with the Reds in the Spanish Civil War", and that what inspired her about Mitford was that she was "incurably and instinctively rebellious, brave, adventurous, funny and irreverent, she liked nothing better than a good fight, preferably against a pompous and hypocritical target".

JK Rowling describes Jane Austen as her "favourite author of all time".

JK Rowling acknowledges Homer, Geoffrey Chaucer, and William Shakespeare as literary influences.

JK Rowling expresses admiration for Lewis, in whose writing battles between good and evil are prominent, but rejects any connection with Dahl.

JK Rowling's setting of a "school of witchcraft and wizardry" departs from the still older tradition of protagonists as apprentices to magicians, exemplified by The Sorcerer's Apprentice: yet this trope does appear in Harry Potter, when Harry receives individual instruction from Remus Lupin and other teachers.

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JK Rowling is known primarily as an author of fantasy and children's literature.

JK Rowling's prose has been described as simple and not innovative; Le Guin, like several other critics, considers it "stylistically ordinary".

JK Rowling has been compared with Enid Blyton, who wrote in simple language about groups of children and long held sway over the British children's market.

In 2000, while she was still writing the Harry Potter series, JK Rowling established the Volant Charitable Trust, named after her mother.

JK Rowling's was appointed president of the charity One Parent Families in 2004, after becoming its first ambassador in 2000.

JK Rowling's collaborated with Sarah Brown on the writing of a book of children's stories to benefit One Parent Families.

JK Rowling was actively engaged on the internet before author webpages were common.

JK Rowling's has at times used Twitter unreservedly to reach her Harry Potter fans and followers.

JK Rowling's thought that the proposal discriminated against single parents, whose interests the Conservative Party failed to consider.

JK Rowling's campaigned for the UK to stay in the European Union in the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum.

JK Rowling's defined herself as an internationalist, "the mongrel product of this European continent", and expressed concern that "racists and bigots" were directing parts of the Leave campaign.

JK Rowling's opposed Benjamin Netanyahu, but believed that depriving Israelis of shared culture would not dislodge him.

In 2015, JK Rowling joined 150 others in signing a letter published in The Guardian in favour of cultural engagement with Israel.

JK Rowling has a difficult relationship with the press and has tried to influence the type of coverage she receives.

JK Rowling's was one of many celebrities alleged to have been victims of phone hacking.

JK Rowling's reaffirmed her stance on "Hacked Off", a campaign supporting the self-regulation of the press, by co-signing a 2014 declaration to "[safeguard] the press from political interference while giving vital protection to the vulnerable" with other British celebrities.

JK Rowling's statements have been called transphobic by critics and she has been referred to as a TERF in response to her Twitter comments.

Criticism of JK Rowling's views has come from the Harry Potter fansites MuggleNet and The Leaky Cauldron; and the charities Mermaids, Stonewall, and Human Rights Campaign.

JK Rowling's won the World Science Fiction Convention's Hugo Award for the fourth book, Goblet of Fire, and the British Book Awards' adult prize – the Book of the Year – for the sixth novel, Half-Blood Prince.

JK Rowling was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2000 Birthday Honours for services to children's literature, and three years later received Spain's Prince of Asturias Award for Concord.

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Many academic institutions have bestowed honorary degrees on JK Rowling, including her alma mater, the University of Exeter, and Harvard University, where she spoke at the 2008 commencement ceremony.

JK Rowling's is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Society of Edinburgh (HonFRSE), and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (FRCPE).

JK Rowling shared the British Academy Film Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema with the cast and crew of the Harry Potter films in 2011.