harry potter and the cursed child book by jk rowling

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 disputed the assertion, saying she was not a billionaire. Rowling has lived a ' rags to riches' life in which she progressed from living on benefits to being named the world's first billionaire author by Forbes. 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. 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, over which Rowling had overall approval on the scripts and was a producer on the final films. She is author of 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.

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), better known by her pen name J. K.

Harry potter and the cursed child book by jk rowling