[238] This blend of realistic and romantic elements extends to Rowling's characters. Jorge Arantes is JK Rowling's first husband and is the father of her 27-year-old daughter. [63] Rowling later said "home was a difficult place to be",[64] and that her teenage years were unhappy. Beyond encyclopedia content, the post-2015 Pottermore included promotions for Warner Bros. films including Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. A new podcast called 'The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling,' featuring interviews with the 'Harry Potter' author herself, digs into the controversy surrounding Rowling's remarks about the . The 57-year-old author's new novel The Ink Black. [285] Other critics who see artistic merit in Rowling's writing include Marina Warner, who views Harry Potter as part of an "alternative genealogy" of English literature that she traces from Edmund Spenser to Christina Rossetti. 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[214], Several publications in the Harry Potter universe have been sold for charitable purposes. Her Harry Potter series topped bestseller lists,[265] spawned a global media franchise including films[63] and video games,[266] and had been translated into 84languages by 2023. [3] At birth, she had no middle name. she ain't dead, but she killed her own career by proudly hating trans people & no one would really miss her that much anyway," wrote one Twitter user. She wrote that she. [19] Anne later worked as a science technician. Amazon's 1.95million purchase set a record for a contemporary literary work and for children's literature. [287] The Cormoran Strike series was more warmly received as a work of British detective fiction, even as some reviewers noted that its plots are occasionally contrived. [31] An advertisement in The Guardian led her to move to Porto, Portugal, in November 1991 to teach night classes in English as a foreign language,[90] writing during the day. [77], After university, Rowling moved to a flat in Clapham Junction with friends,[78] and took a course to become a bilingual secretary. [207] Rowling collaborated with writer Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany. She likes to wish happy birthday to Harry and Ginnys fictional children, and suspects that Lord Voldemort would have evolved beyond the need to eat food. StyleCaster is a part of Penske Media Corporation. [209] Ickabog is a monster that turns out to be real; a group of children find out the truth about the Ickabog and save the day. In the blog post published on Wednesday, Rowling, 54, detailed what she said were the five reasons why she felt the. [368][389], Rowling was actively engaged on the internet before author webpages were common. She was one of many celebrities alleged to have been victims of phone hacking. [463] For services to literature and philanthropy, she was awarded the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) in 2017. Courtesy of Warner Bros. AP Images. [52] With the end of the relationship with her boyfriend, and "being made redundant from an office job in Manchester", Rowling described herself as being in a state of "fight or flight". J.K. Rowling, in full Joanne Kathleen Rowling, pen name of Joanne Rowling, (born July 31, 1965, Yate, near Bristol, England), British author, creator of the popular and critically acclaimed Harry Potter series, about a young sorcerer in training. [91] By mid-1992, they were planning a trip to London to introduce Arantes to Rowling's family, when she had a miscarriage. [210][211] Rowling released The Ickabog for free online in mid-2020, during the COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom. The novels follow a boy called Harry Potter as he attends Hogwarts, a school for wizards, and battles Lord Voldemort. [351][352], In the 1990s and 2000s, Rowling was both a plaintiff and defendant in lawsuits alleging copyright infringement. J.K. Rowling's new book "The Ink Back Heart" features a character persecuted and killed over her allegedly transphobic views. [227] Rowling also draws on the tradition of stories set in boarding schools, a major example of which is Thomas Hughes's 1857 volume Tom Brown's School Days. [347][348] While Rowling has supported fan fiction, her statements about characters for instance, that Harry and Hermione could have been a couple, and that Dumbledore was gay have complicated her relationship with readers. The Sorcerer's Stone hit shelves on July 26, 1997, to immediate success. It was previously believed that the initial print run was 500 copies total, but this number is "woefully inaccurate". May 18, 2020, 3:02 PM UTC The cryptocurrency world received a jolt on Friday when one of the world's most famous women expressed interest in Bitcoin. JK Rowling has warned that social media is 'a gift for people who want to behave in a malign way' after she received a death threat on Twitter from an Islamic extremist in response to her support . According to Errington, 500 hardbacks and 5,150 paperbacks "were published on the same date and neither has bibliographical priority". [237] Paintings move and talk; books bite readers; letters shout messages; and maps show live journeys,[236][238] making the wizarding world "both exotic and cosily familiar" according to the scholar Catherine Butler. [403] Rowling dislikes the British tabloid the Daily Mail,[404] which she successfully sued in 2014 for libel about her time as a single mother. Actor Daniel Radcliffe was among those critical of Ms Rowling's comments. [174] Rowling denied that she was a billionaire in a 2005 interview.