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Creator of the ‘Harry Potter’ fantasy series, J.K. Rowling has sold over 335 million books, now translated into 65 languages. Her last 4 have been the fastest selling books in history. Rowling’s publisher, Bloomsbury, felt that their target audience of young boys might be reluctant to read books by a female author and requested that Joanne Rowling use her initials… thus J.K. Rowling.

Harry Potter is a global brand, now worth over 15 billion dollars. ‘Forbes Magazine’  named Rowling as the person to ever become a billionaire by writing books. Rowling is now a philanthropist who gives generously to antipoverty and reading programs as well as the MS Society of Great Britain (her mother had multiple sclerosis). Queen Elizabeth II inducted her into the ‘Order of the British Empire’. In 2006, the asteroid (43844) ‘Rowling’ was named in her honor and the newly discovered Pachycephalosaurid dinosaur, Dracorex hogwartsia, currently at the Children's Museum in Indianapolis, was named in honor of her sorcerer’s world.

“I think you have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.”

                        

“Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve. I was determined to try. I was determined to try because, frankly, my life was such a mess at this point, what – what was the worst that could happen? Everyone turn me down? Big deal.”

“Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.”

“One of my regrets would be that I will never again have the pleasure of sneaking into a cafe, any cafe I like, sitting down and diving into my world and no one knowing what I am doing and no one bothering about me and being totally anonymous, that was fantastic.”

                          

“I am not trying to influence anyone into black magic. That is the very last thing I’d want to do. I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”

“The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.”

To the philosopher, death is but the next great adventure.”

“Even though I have known it is coming for the past fifteen years, I have known that the series would end, I think it will still be a shock.”

“I don't think I'm ever going to have anything like Harry again. You just get one like Harry Potter.”

“I never expected to be in the papers. I personally never expected to be in the papers. The height of my ambition for these books was, well frankly, to get reviewed. A lot of children's books don't even get reviewed, forget good review, bad review. Personally, no, I never expected to be in the papers so it's an odd experience when it happens to you.”

- J.K. Rowling  (1965- )

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