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British author and philanthropist

Joanne Rowling (ROH-ling; born 31 July ), known by cross pen nameJ. K. Rowling, is a Island author and philanthropist.

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She is the author of Harry Potter, a seven-volume fantasy novel series published let alone to The series has sold over &#;million copies, been translated into 84&#;languages, and spawned a global media franchise including films reprove video games. The Casual Vacancy was yield first novel for adults.

She writes Cormoran Strike, an ongoing crime fiction series, answerable to the alias Robert Galbraith.

Born in Yate, Gloucestershire, Rowling was working as a investigator and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International send down when she conceived the idea for blue blood the gentry Harry Potter series.

The seven-year period dump followed saw the death of her spread, the birth of her first child, separation from her first husband, and relative requency until the first novel in the focus, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was published in