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J.K. Rowling is the author of the hugely popular Harry Potter book series, which has sold over 450 million copies worldwide. She has also written companion books to Harry Potter, as well as crime novels under a pen name. Rowling launched the digital entertainment company Pottermore to share news and features about the Wizarding World with fans. In addition to her writing successes, Rowling supports charitable organizations through her foundation that aim to help children worldwide.

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J K - Rowling-Biography

J.K. Rowling is the author of the hugely popular Harry Potter book series, which has sold over 450 million copies worldwide. She has also written companion books to Harry Potter, as well as crime novels under a pen name. Rowling launched the digital entertainment company Pottermore to share news and features about the Wizarding World with fans. In addition to her writing successes, Rowling supports charitable organizations through her foundation that aim to help children worldwide.

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Biography

J.K. Rowling is the author of the bestselling Harry Potter series of seven books, published between
1997 and 2007, which have sold over 450 million copies worldwide, are distributed in more than
200 territories and translated into 79 languages, and have been turned into eight blockbuster
films.

She has written three companion volumes: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and
Where to Find Them in aid of Comic Relief; and The Tales of Beedle the Bard in aid of her non-
profit children’s organisation Lumos.

In 2012, J.K. Rowling’s digital entertainment and e-commerce company Pottermore was launched,
where fans can enjoy news, features and articles, as well as original content by J.K. Rowling. It is
also the global digital publisher of Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World.

Her first novel for adult readers, The Casual Vacancy was published in September 2012 and
adapted for TV by the BBC in 2015. Her crime novels, written under the pseudonym Robert Gal-
braith, were published in 2013 (The Cuckoo’s Calling), 2014 (The Silkworm) and 2015 (Career of
Evil), and are to be adapted for a major new television series for BBC One, produced by
Brontë Film and Television.

J.K. Rowling’s 2008 Harvard commencement speech was published in 2015 as an illustrated book,
Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination, and sold in aid
of Lumos and university–wide financial aid at Harvard.

J.K. Rowling collaborated on the stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two,
an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, and John Tiffany, a new play by Jack Thorne,
now running at The Palace Theatre in London’s West End.

In addition, J.K. Rowling made her screenwriting debut with the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to
Find Them, a further extension of the Wizarding World, released to critical acclaim in November
2016. A prequel to Harry Potter, this new adventure of Magizoologist Newt Scamander marks the
start of a five film series to be written by the author.

As well as receiving an OBE for services to children's literature, she has received many awards
and honours, including France’s Legion d’Honneur and the Hans Christian Andersen Award.

J.K. Rowling supports a number of causes through her charitable trust, Volant. She is also the
founder and president of the international non-profit children’s organization Lumos, which works to
end the institutionalisation of children globally and ensure they grow up in a safe and caring envi-
ronment. 

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