Rowling concluded the Harry Potter series with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007). Six sequels followed, and by 2008, Forbes had named her the world's highest-paid author.
The seven-year period that followed saw the death of her mother, the birth of her first child, divorce from her first husband, and relative poverty until the first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was published in 1997. She writes Cormoran Strike, an ongoing crime fiction series, under the alias Robert Galbraith.īorn in Yate, Gloucestershire, Rowling was working as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International in 1990 when she conceived the idea for the Harry Potter series while on a delayed train from Manchester to London. The Casual Vacancy (2012) was her first novel for adults. The series has sold over 600 million copies, been translated into 84 languages, and spawned a global media franchise including films and video games.
She wrote Harry Potter, a seven-volume children's fantasy series published from 1997 to 2007. Rowling, is a British author and philanthropist. Joanne Rowling CH OBE FRSL ( / ˈ r oʊ l ɪ ŋ/ 'rolling' born 31 July 1965), best known by her pen name J. K.
