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in which she found out it was a different Louis Volant who won the Legion of Honour. In a blog post, she added: "How can a retreat into selfish and insecure individualism be the right response when Europe faces genuine threats, when the bonds that tie us are so powerful, when we have come so far together? [189] Rowling's two booklets, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through the Ages, are ostensibly facsimiles of books found in the Hogwarts library. "British author rides up the charts on a wizard's tale". [29] She had previously suffered a miscarriage. "[238] In 2014, she successfully sued the Mail for libel over an article about her time as a single mother. 2001. [237], Rowling has expressed her particular dislike of the Daily Mail, a British tabloid which has conducted several interviews with her estranged ex-husband. [99] David Yates directed again, and Kloves returned to write the script. Read on to see who joins Adelson on this growing list. [17] As she had no middle name, she chose K (for Kathleen) as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother. [7] 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 was one of 50 authors to contribute to First Editions, Second Thoughts, a charity auction for English PEN. With casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson's $10 million gift, the tally of America's richest people donating to Mitt Romney-backing super PAC Restore Our Future is 32 -- or, 8% of the Forbes 400. [235] In 2001, the Press Complaints Commission upheld a complaint by Rowling over a series of unauthorised photographs of her with her daughter on the beach in Mauritius published in OK! [71] Although Bloomsbury agreed to publish the book, Cunningham says that he advised Rowling to get a day job, since she had little chance of making money in children's books. "The Truth about Harry". [1] Aged nine, Rowling moved to Church Cottage in the Gloucestershire village of Tutshill, close to Chepstow, Wales. [129], Rowling is a friend of Sarah Brown, wife of former prime minister Gordon Brown, whom she met when they collaborated on a charitable project. [97] A film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was released on 16 November 2001, and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets on 15 November 2002. I might not be in my house, but I'm still in my hometown. [27] In 1988, Rowling wrote a short essay about her time studying Classics titled "What was the Name of that Nymph Again? In 2006, Rowling contributed a substantial sum toward the creation of a new Centre for Regenerative Medicine at Edinburgh University, later named the Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic. Still, the number of billionaires who've given to Restore Our Future, a Mitt Romney-backing super PAC, is staggering: 30, or 7.5% of the Forbes 400 list. [52], An advertisement in The Guardian[29] led Rowling to move to Porto, Portugal to teach English as a foreign language. [60] Rowling signed up for welfare benefits, describing her economic status as being "poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless. [154] Russells made a donation to the Soldiers' Charity on Rowling's behalf and reimbursed her for her legal fees. 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[147] The novel, a detective story in which private investigator Cormoran Strike unravels the supposed suicide of a supermodel, sold 1,500 copies in hardback (although the matter was not resolved as of 21 July 2013[update]; later reports stated that this number is the number of copies that were printed for the first run, while the sales total was closer to 500)[148] and received acclaim from other crime writers[147] and critics[149]—a Publishers Weekly review called the book a "stellar debut",[150] while the Library Journal's mystery section pronounced the novel "the debut of the month". [78] She later withdrew the fourth Harry Potter novel from contention to allow other books a fair chance. [69] Upon the enthusiastic response of Bryony Evens, a reader who had been asked to review the book's first three chapters, the Fulham-based Christopher Little Literary Agency agreed to represent Rowling in her quest for a publisher. [83] Rowling later said that writing the book was a chore, that it could have been shorter, and that she ran out of time and energy as she tried to finish it. [212], To many, Rowling is known for her centre-left political views. 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. Norman-Culp, Sheila (23 November 1998). In January 2000, Prisoner of Azkaban won the inaugural Whitbread Children's Book of the Year award, though it lost the Book of the Year prize to Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf. It later emerged that the woman who had outed her was the best friend of the wife of a partner in Rowling’s firm of legal representatives, Russells Solicitors. [27][28] Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. [128] Shortly after Rowling began writing Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, she ceased working on the novel to care for David in his early infancy. I was raised by a Francophile mother whose family was proud of their part-French heritage ... My values are not contained or proscribed by borders. 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. [178] The site includes 18,000 words of information on characters, places and objects in the Harry Potter universe. [14] Time named her a runner-up for its 2007 Person of the Year, noting the social, moral, and political inspiration she has given her fans. "[223] Early on in writing the Harry Potter series of books and in response to criticism, Rowling disclosed her religious beliefs, feeling that if readers knew of her religious views, they would be able to predict plot lines of characters in her books. [169] The fifth novel in the series, titled Troubled Blood, was published in September 2020. [145] In an interview with Stephen Fry in 2005, Rowling had claimed that she would much prefer to write any subsequent books under a pseudonym, but had previously conceded to Jeremy Paxman in 2003 that if she did, the press would probably "find out in seconds". [214], In April 2010, an article by Rowling was published in The Times, in which she criticised Her father had graduated from the Texas Christian University. [33][34], Rowling's sister Dianne[7] was born at their home when Rowling was 23 months old. [228][229][230] In a 2012 radio interview, Rowling stated that she was a member of the Scottish Episcopal Church, a province of the Anglican Communion. [112], In September 2013, Warner Bros. announced an "expanded creative partnership" with Rowling, based on a planned series of films about her character Newt Scamander, author of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. 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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. [155] On her Robert Galbraith website, Rowling explained that she took the name from one of her personal heroes, Robert F. Kennedy, and a childhood fantasy name she had invented for herself, Ella Galbraith. [30][31] Her mother's French paternal grandfather, Louis Volant,[32] was awarded the War Cross for exceptional bravery in defending the village of Courcelles-le-Comte during World War I. Rowling originally believed Volant had won the Legion of Honour during the war, as she said when she received it herself in 2009. [27][132] As of June 2014[update], the family resides in Scotland. [89] It sold 11 million copies in the first day of release in the United Kingdom and United States. [130] Rowling's youngest child, daughter Mackenzie Jean Rowling Murray, to whom she dedicated Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, was born on 23 January 2005. [80] In the US, the book sold three million copies in its first 48 hours, smashing all records. But that's not the only reason the President should worry about American Crossroads. [244], In 2014, Rowling reaffirmed her support for "Hacked Off", a campaign supporting the self-regulation of the press, by co-signing a declaration to "[safeguard] the press from political interference while also giving vital protection to the vulnerable" with other British celebrities. [37], Rowling has said that her teenage years were unhappy. "[233], Rowling has stated that she has a difficult relationship with the press, admitting at one point to being "thin-skinned" and disliking the fickle nature of reporting, though she has disputed that she is a recluse who hates to be interviewed.