Rowling was appointed a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to literature and philanthropy. The 2021 Sunday Times Rich List estimated Rowling's fortune at £820 million, ranking her as the 196th richest person in the UK. Her UK sales total in excess of £238 million, making her the best-selling living author in Britain. Forbes reported that she lost her billionaire status after giving away much of her earnings to charity. Rowling has progressed from living on benefits to being named the world's first billionaire author by Forbes, an assertion that she disputed. In 2020, her "political fairytale" for children, The Ickabog, was released in instalments in an online version. 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. There were six sequels, of which the last was released in 2007. 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.
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She also writes crime fiction under the pen name 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 books are the basis of a popular film series. She is the author of the Harry Potter series, which has won multiple awards and sold more than 500 million copies as of 2018, and became the best-selling book children's series in history in 2008. Rowling, is a British author, philanthropist, film producer, and screenwriter. Joanne Rowling, CH, OBE, HonFRSE, FRCPE, FRSL ( / ˈ r oʊ l ɪ ŋ/ ROH-ling born 31 July 1965), known by her pen name J. K.
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