Joanne "Jo" Murray née Rowling OBE (born 31 July 1965), who writes under the pen name J. K. Rowling, is an English writer and author of the Harry Potter fantasy series, which has gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, and sold over 325 million books. The last four Harry Potter books have been consecutively the fastest-selling books in history, a record which the final book currently holds.
The 2007 Sunday Times Rich List estimated Rowling's fortune at £545 million, ranking her as the 136th richest person and the thirteenth richest woman in Britain. In 2006, Forbes named Rowling the second-richest female entertainer in the world and ranked her as the forty-eighth most powerful celebrity of 2007.
Although she writes under the pseudonym "J. K. Rowling", pronounced like rolling (IPA: /rəʊ.lɪŋ/), she actually has no middle name making her full name simply "Joanne Rowling". Before publishing her first book, London-based publisher, Bloomsbury feared that the target audience of young...
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the third novel in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling. The book was published on 8 July 1999. The novel won both the 1999 Costa Book Awards and the Bram Stoker Award, and was shortlisted for other awards, placing it among the most-honoured works of fantasy in recent history. . A film based on the book was released on 31 May 2004, in the United Kingdom and June 4, 2004 in the U.S. and many other countries. J.K. Rowling's third book opens with Harry Potter spending yet another miserable summer at the Dursleys'. While there, they see a news report about an escaped convict called Sirius Black. When Uncle Vernon's sister, Marge, viciously insults Harry, his anger causes her to inflate and float to the ceiling. Still seething, and despite his uncle's threats, Harry runs away, and amid the street's dark shadows, he sees a large black dog ominously watching him. The Knight Bus suddenly appears and takes him to Diagon Alley. During the...,
J.K. Rowling invented the Harry Potter Series when the train was stopped for repair on a ride from Manchester to London.
After taking her A-level exams Joanne leaves school for Exeter.
J. K. Rowling was born
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