Unbelievable

J.K. Rowling

We had known that everyone loved the Harry Potter films. It created by an author named J.K. Rowling. But, her name J.K. Rowling is the pen name she uses as a writer. The J is for Joanne, her real first name, but actually she prefers to be called Jo. The K is made up, because her publisher asked her to write using a name with two initials, even though she didn’t have a middle name at all.

She worked as a researcher and bilingual secretary for amnesty International and as an English teacher in Portugal, before she struck upon the idea of writing children’s books.  The idea for the Harry Potter novels came from nowhere while she was on a train to London.

Now, Seven Potter novels and Rowling is one of the richest women in the world. In fact, she is the first novelist ever to become a billionaire from writing. Her last four books also broke records for the fastest sellers in literary history. Wow! Today, she devotes much of her time to many charitable causes.

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