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Mix Up Star: J.K. ROWLING


Age: 56

Birthday: 31st July


J. K. Rowling is a British author, philanthropist, film producer, television producer, and screenwriter. She is best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series, which has won multiple awards and sold more than 500 million copies, becoming the best-selling book series in history. The books are the basis of a popular film series, over which Rowling had overall approval on the scripts and was a producer on the final films. She also writes crime fiction under the pen name Robert Galbraith.



Born 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 seven-year period that followed saw the death of her mother, 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. There were six sequels, of which the last was released in 2007. Since then, Rowling has written several books for adult readers: The Casual Vacancy (2012) and—under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith—the crime fiction Cormoran Strike series. In 2020, her "political fairytale" for children, The Ickabog, was released in instalments in an online version.



Which Harry Potter books have you read?






How do you rate these J.K. Rowling adaptations?





 

WATCH J.K. ROWLING THIS WEEK




ON TV:


FILM: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)

Sunday 22nd August, ITV, 6:15pm

The first part of Rowling's final book in the series.




What's your favourite J.K. Rowling book?






 

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