# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/j-k-rowling
# Generated: 2026-08-31T12:54:12.934Z

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description: "She turned a train-delay daydream into the best-selling book series in history — 600 million copies of a boy wizard's story — then used the fortune to fund causes that made half her audience stop speaking to her."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Joanne Rowling conceived Harry Potter in 1990, then spent seven years watching her mother die, divorcing, raising a daughter alone, and living in relative poverty before Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone reached print in 1997. Six sequels followed through 2007; Forbes named her the world's highest-paid author in 2008. The books spawned 84 translations and a global film-and-game empire. She writes crime fiction as Robert Galbraith and has given over $200 million to medical research, at-risk women and children, and Labour Party efforts against Scottish independence and Brexit. In 2019 she began posting opposition to gender self-identification and trans women in women's toilets, donating to the gender-critical group For Women Scotland and drawing anger from fans who grew up on her work.