United Kingdom
J. K. Rowling
said
I've never set out to teach anyone anything.
— Interview with screenwriter Steve Kloves, moderated by by Lizo Mzimba. Chamber of Secrets DVD (February 2003)
J. K. Rowling
British author and philanthropist (born 1965)
- Fame89.2
- Momentum10.0
- Global rank#208
Source-basedFalling
- Fame89.2
- Momentum10.0
- Global rank#208
- United Kingdom rank#26
- Directors rank#4
- Wikipedia258.2K
Born 1965 · age 61United Kingdom
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Updated 2026-07-17
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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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…
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J. K. Rowling
said
If you need to tell your readers something … there are only two characters that you can put it convincingly into their dialogue. One is Hermione, the other is Dumbledore.
— Interview with screenwriter Steve Kloves, moderated by by Lizo Mzimba. Chamber of Secrets DVD (February 2003)
J. K. Rowling
said
I've given you more than I've given anyone else which I probably shouldn't probably say on — on screen, or they'll kidnap and torture him, and we need him.
— Interview with screenwriter Steve Kloves, moderated by by Lizo Mzimba. Chamber of Secrets DVD (February 2003)
J. K. Rowling
said
Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. [...] It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope.
— As quoted in Ann Treneman "J. K. Rowling : The Interview", The Times (30 June 2000)
J. K. Rowling
said
I have met thousands of children now, and not even one time has a child come up to me and said, "Ms.
— As quoted in "Success of Harry Potter bowls author over", CNN (21 October 1999)
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- Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award
- honorary doctor of Harvard University
- Geffen Award
- Andre Norton Award
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Falling89.2
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Momentum10.0
Historical33.3
Now attention37.2
Source confidence80.0
Completeness90.0
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