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Although she writes under the pen name J. K. Rowling, before her remarriage her name was Joanne Rowling, [2] or Jo. [3] At birth, she had no middle name. [2] Staff at Bloomsbury Publishing suggested that she use two initials rather than her full name, anticipating that young boys – their target audience – would not want to read a book written by a woman. [2]
JK Rowling made a splash in 1997 when her first Harry Potter book series novel was published and became a global sensation, putting the spotlight on the Gloucestershire-born author.
Podcast host Free Press describes The Witch Trials of JK Rowling, out on 21 February, as an “audio documentary that examines some of the most contentious conflicts of our time through the life ...
Blair is Chairman of J.K. Rowling’s children’s charity Lumos.He is a UK ambassador for The Abraham Initiatives [11] and a board member of JW3. [12] In 2017, he and his wife, Debra, supported the construction of archive space and a reading room on Exeter College’s Cohen Quadrangle to help preserve 30,000 rare books, including important Judaica such as the Soncino Bible, the earliest full ...
From October 2006 to October 2007, Runcie spent a year filming J.K. Rowling: A Year in the Life for ITV, as the author was completing the final novel in the Harry Potter cycle, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The programme featured intimate access to Rowling's daily life, and included deeply personal interviews by Runcie with Rowling. [16]
It seems like British author J.K. Rowling, creator of the beloved Harry Potter franchise, is constantly getting into trouble on Twitter.But it can sometimes be hard to keep track of what people ...
Author J.K. Rowling reads from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone at the 2010 Easter Egg Roll at the White House.. British author J. K. Rowling, writer of Harry Potter and other Wizarding World works, has garnered attention for her support of the Labour Party under Gordon Brown and her criticism of the party under Jeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer, as well as her opposition to the American ...
Posting on Twitter last week, Rowling wrote: “Last year, I received a long, thoughtful letter from @Meganphelps, inviting me to take part in a personal, in-depth discussion with her about the ...