Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964.
Joanne Rowling ( ; born 31 July 1965), better known by her pen name J. K.
During the Leveson Inquiry, she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling and her entry in Who's Who lists her name also as Joanne Kathleen Rowling. ==Life and career== ===Birth and family=== Joanne Rowling was born on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, to Anne (née Volant), a science technician, and Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer.
They married on 14 March 1965.
She was named the world's highest paid author in 2017 and 2019 by Forbes with net earnings of £72 million ($95 million) and $92 million respectively. ===Remarriage and family=== On 26 December 2001, Rowling married Neil Murray (born 30 June 1971), a Scottish doctor, in a private ceremony at her home, Killiechassie House, in Scotland.
Rowling took A-levels in English, French and German, achieving two As and a B and was head girl. In 1982, Rowling took the entrance exams for Oxford University but was not accepted and earned a BA in French and Classics at the University of Exeter.
After a year of study in Paris, Rowling graduated from Exeter in 1986.
In 1988, Rowling wrote a short essay about her time studying Classics titled "What was the Name of that Nymph Again? or Greek and Roman Studies Recalled"; it was published by the University of Exeter's journal Pegasus. ===Inspiration and mother's death=== Rowling worked as a researcher and bilingual secretary in London for Amnesty International,Reprint at Accio Quote! (accio-quote.org).
She also writes crime fiction under the pen name Robert Galbraith. 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.
In 1990, she was on a four-hour delayed train trip from Manchester to London when the idea "came fully formed" into her mind for a story of a young boy attending a school of wizardry.Reprint at Accio Quote! (accio-quote.org).
Retrieved 25 February 2007. In December 1990, Rowling's mother Anne died after ten years suffering from multiple sclerosis.
An inflatable representation of Lord Voldemort and other children's literary characters accompanied her reading. ===Multiple sclerosis=== Rowling has contributed money and support for research and treatment of multiple sclerosis, from which her mother suffered before her death in 1990.
They married on 16 October 1992, and daughter Jessica Isabel Rowling Arantes (named after Jessica Mitford) was born on 27 July 1993 in Portugal.
They married on 16 October 1992, and daughter Jessica Isabel Rowling Arantes (named after Jessica Mitford) was born on 27 July 1993 in Portugal.
The couple separated on 17 November 1993.
In December 1993, Rowling and her daughter moved to Edinburgh, Scotland, to be near Rowling's sister with three chapters of Harry Potter in her suitcase. Seven years after graduating from university, Rowling saw herself as a failure.
She obtained an Order of Restraint, and Arantes returned to Portugal, with Rowling filing for divorce in August 1994.
She began a teacher training course in August 1995 at the Moray House School of Education at Edinburgh University, after completing her first novel while living on state benefits.
She stated that she wrote in cafés because coffee was available without her breaking the flow of writing, and that taking her baby out for a walk helped her to fall asleep. ===Harry Potter=== In 1995, Rowling finished her manuscript for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone which was typed on an old manual typewriter.
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.
Soon after, in 1997, Rowling received an £8,000 grant from the Scottish Arts Council to enable her to continue writing. In June 1997, Bloomsbury published Philosopher's Stone with an initial print run of 1,000 copies, 500 of which were distributed to libraries.
Selected Speeches 1997–2006.
In February 1998, the novel won the British Book Award for Children's Book of the Year and, later, the Children's Book Award.
In early 1998, an auction was held in the United States for the rights to publish the novel, and was won by Scholastic Inc., for US$105,000.
In October 1998, Scholastic published Philosopher's Stone in the US under the title of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, a change Rowling says she now regrets and would have fought if she had been in a better position at the time.
Rowling moved from her flat with the money from the Scholastic sale, into 19 Hazelbank Terrace in Edinburgh. Its sequel, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, was published in July 1998 and again Rowling won the Smarties Prize.
The series, totalling 4,195 pages, has been translated, in whole or in part, into 65 languages. The Harry Potter books have also gained recognition for sparking an interest in reading among the young at a time when children were thought to be abandoning books for computers, television and video games, although it is reported that despite the huge uptake of the books, adolescent reading has continued to decline. ===Harry Potter films=== In October 1998, Warner Bros.
In December 1999, the third novel, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, won the Smarties Prize, making Rowling the first person to win the award three times running.
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. The fourth book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, was released simultaneously in the UK and the US on 8 July 2000 and broke sales records in both countries, with 372,775 copies of the book sold in its first day in the UK, almost equalling the number Prisoner of Azkaban sold during its first year.
Rowling was named Author of the Year in the 2000 British Book Awards. A wait of three years occurred between the release of Goblet of Fire and the fifth Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
The story is unconnected to any of Rowling's previous works. ==Philanthropy== In 2000, Rowling established the Volant Charitable Trust, which uses its annual budget of £5.1 million to combat poverty and social inequality.
The fund also gives to organisations that aid children, one-parent families, and multiple sclerosis research. ===Anti-poverty and children's welfare=== Rowling, once a single parent, is now president of the charity Gingerbread (originally One Parent Families), having become their first Ambassador in 2000.
In a 2001 BBC interview, Rowling denied the rumour that she wrote in local cafés to escape from her unheated flat, pointing out that it had heating.
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.
In February 2013, she was assessed as the 13th most powerful woman in the United Kingdom by Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4. Rowling acquired the courtesy title of Laird of Killiechassie in 2001 when she purchased the historic Killiechassie House, and its surrounding estate situated on the banks of the River Tay, near Aberfeldy, in Perth and Kinross.
She was named the world's highest paid author in 2017 and 2019 by Forbes with net earnings of £72 million ($95 million) and $92 million respectively. ===Remarriage and family=== On 26 December 2001, Rowling married Neil Murray (born 30 June 1971), a Scottish doctor, in a private ceremony at her home, Killiechassie House, in Scotland.
Rowling collaborated with Sarah Brown to write a book of children's stories to aid One Parent Families. In 2001, the UK anti-poverty fundraiser Comic Relief asked three best-selling British authors—cookery writer and TV presenter Delia Smith, Bridget Jones creator Helen Fielding, and Rowling—to submit booklets related to their most famous works for publication.
Since going on sale in March 2001, the books have raised £15.7 million for the fund.
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! magazine.
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.
In 2002, Rowling contributed a foreword to Magic, an anthology of fiction published by Bloomsbury Publishing, helping to raise money for the National Council for One Parent Families. In 2005, Rowling and MEP Emma Nicholson founded the Children's High Level Group (now Lumos).
In 2002, Rowling became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (HonFRSE) as well a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL).
31 May 2003; last updated 12 February 2007.
Their son, David Gordon Rowling Murray, was born on 24 March 2003.
When Sarah Brown's son Fraser was born in 2003, Rowling was one of the first to visit her in hospital.
In 2003, Rowling took part in a campaign to establish a national standard of care for MS sufferers.
The film version of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was released on 4 June 2004, directed by Alfonso Cuarón.
The second, The Crimes of Grindelwald, was released in November 2018. ===Financial success=== In 2004, Forbes named Rowling as the first person to become a US-dollar billionaire by writing books, the second-richest female entertainer and the 1,062nd richest person in the world.
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. The sixth book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, was released on 16 July 2005.
The fourth film, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, was directed by Mike Newell, and released on 18 November 2005.
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. In October 2012, a New Yorker magazine article stated that the Rowling family lived in a seventeenth-century Edinburgh house, concealed at the front by tall conifer hedges.
In 2002, Rowling contributed a foreword to Magic, an anthology of fiction published by Bloomsbury Publishing, helping to raise money for the National Council for One Parent Families. In 2005, Rowling and MEP Emma Nicholson founded the Children's High Level Group (now Lumos).
In 2006, Half-Blood Prince received the Book of the Year prize at the British Book Awards. The title of the seventh and final Harry Potter book was announced on 21 December 2006 as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
In January 2006, Rowling went to Bucharest to highlight the use of caged beds in mental institutions for children.
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.
The cards were collated and sold for charity in book form in August 2008. On 1 and 2 August 2006, she read alongside Stephen King and John Irving at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
Her eldest daughter, Jessica, was baptised there. In a 2006 interview with Tatler, Rowling noted that, "like Graham Greene, my faith is sometimes about if my faith will return.
Bloomsbury. Sussman, Peter Y., editor (26 July 2006).
There were six sequels, of which the last was released in 2007.
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.
31 May 2003; last updated 12 February 2007.
Retrieved 6 December 2007.
Retrieved 10 October 2007.
Retrieved 25 February 2007. In December 1990, Rowling's mother Anne died after ten years suffering from multiple sclerosis.
In February 2007, it was reported that Rowling wrote on a bust in her hotel room at the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh that she had finished the seventh book in that room on 11 January 2007.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was released on 21 July 2007 (0:01 BST) and broke its predecessor's record as the fastest-selling book of all time.
The film of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was released on 11 July 2007.
The series aired in three parts from 15 February to 1 March 2015. ===Cormoran Strike=== In 2007, during the Edinburgh Book Festival, author Ian Rankin claimed that his wife spotted Rowling "scribbling away" at a detective novel in a café.
In October 2007, she stated that her future work was unlikely to be in the fantasy genre.
On 1 October 2010, in an interview with Oprah Winfrey, Rowling stated a new book on the saga might happen. In 2007, Rowling stated that she planned to write an encyclopaedia of Harry Potter's wizarding world consisting of various unpublished material and notes.
During a news conference at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre in 2007, Rowling, when asked how the encyclopaedia was coming along, said, "It's not coming along, and I haven't started writing it.
I never said it was the next thing I'd do." At the end of 2007, Rowling said that the encyclopaedia could take up to ten years to complete. In June 2011, Rowling announced that future Harry Potter projects, and all electronic downloads, would be concentrated in a new website, called Pottermore.
The Ickabog was first mooted as a "political fairytale" for children in a 2007 Time magazine interview.
The book was purchased for £1.95 million by online bookseller Amazon.com on 13 December 2007, becoming the most expensive modern book ever sold at auction.
In May 2007, Rowling pledged a donation reported as over £250,000 to a reward fund started by the tabloid News of the World for the safe return of a young British girl, Madeleine McCann, who disappeared in Portugal.
In 2007, Rowling's young son, David, assisted by Rowling and her husband, lost a court fight to ban publication of a photograph of David.
In 2008, Rowling agreed to publish the book with the proceeds going to Lumos.
The cards were collated and sold for charity in book form in August 2008. On 1 and 2 August 2006, she read alongside Stephen King and John Irving at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
In September 2008, on the eve of the Labour Party Conference, Rowling announced that she had donated £1 million to the Labour Party, and publicly endorsed Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown over Conservative challenger David Cameron, praising Labour's policies on child poverty.
Rowling is a close friend of Sarah Brown, wife of Gordon Brown, whom she met when they collaborated on a charitable project for One Parent Families. Rowling commented on American politics when she discussed the 2008 United States presidential election with the Spanish-language newspaper El País in February 2008, stating that the election would have a profound effect on the rest of the world.
The judgement was overturned in David's favour in May 2008. Rowling has expressed her particular dislike of the Daily Mail, a British tabloid which has conducted several interviews with her estranged ex-husband.
The injunction drew fire from civil liberties and free speech campaigners and sparked debates over the "right to read". ==Awards and honours== Rowling has received honorary degrees from the University of St Andrews, the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Napier University, the University of Exeter (which she attended), the University of Aberdeen, and Harvard University, where she spoke at the 2008 commencement ceremony.
Rowling originally believed Volant had won the Legion of Honour during the war, as she said when she received it herself in 2009.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was released on 15 July 2009.
In April 2009, she announced that she was withdrawing her support for Multiple Sclerosis Society Scotland, citing her inability to resolve an ongoing feud between the organisation's northern and southern branches that had sapped morale and led to several resignations. ===Covid-19=== In May 2020, Rowling announced the publication of children's novel The Ickabog, with all author royalties being donated to charities supporting those affected by covid-19.
In 2009, Rowling was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur by French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
"Gordon Brown – The 2009 Time 100".
In October 2010, she was named the "Most Influential Woman in Britain" by leading magazine editors.
filmed the final instalment of the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, in two segments, with part one being released on 19 November 2010 and part two being released on 15 July 2011.
On 1 October 2010, in an interview with Oprah Winfrey, Rowling stated a new book on the saga might happen. In 2007, Rowling stated that she planned to write an encyclopaedia of Harry Potter's wizarding world consisting of various unpublished material and notes.
On 1 June 2010 (International Children's Day), Lumos launched an annual initiative—Light a Birthday Candle for Lumos.
In 2010, she donated another £10 million to the centre, and in 2019 a further £15 million.
Kennedy as her hero. In April 2010, an article by Rowling was published in The Times, in which she criticised then Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron's plan to encourage married couples to stay together by offering them a £150 annual tax credit: "Nobody who has ever experienced the reality of poverty could say 'it's not the money, it's the message'.
filmed the final instalment of the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, in two segments, with part one being released on 19 November 2010 and part two being released on 15 July 2011.
, the family resides in Scotland. ===The Casual Vacancy=== In July 2011, Rowling parted company with her agent, Christopher Little, moving to a new agency founded by one of his staff, Neil Blair.
I never said it was the next thing I'd do." At the end of 2007, Rowling said that the encyclopaedia could take up to ten years to complete. In June 2011, Rowling announced that future Harry Potter projects, and all electronic downloads, would be concentrated in a new website, called Pottermore.
By 2011, Rowling had taken more than 50 actions against the press.
After spending eight years on the list, in 2012 Forbes removed Rowling from their rich list, claiming that her US$160 million in charitable donations and the high tax rate in the UK meant she was no longer a billionaire.
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. In October 2012, a New Yorker magazine article stated that the Rowling family lived in a seventeenth-century Edinburgh house, concealed at the front by tall conifer hedges.
Prior to October 2012, Rowling lived near the author Ian Rankin, who later said she was quiet and introspective, and that she seemed in her element with children.
On 23 February 2012, his agency, the Blair Partnership, announced on its website that Rowling was set to publish a new book targeted at adults.
In April 2012, Little, Brown and Company announced that the book was titled The Casual Vacancy and would be released on 27 September 2012.
In its first three weeks of release, The Casual Vacancy sold over 1 million copies worldwide. On 3 December 2012, it was announced that the BBC would be adapting The Casual Vacancy into a television drama miniseries.
Rankin later retracted the story, claiming it was a joke, but the rumour persisted, with a report in 2012 in The Guardian speculating that Rowling's next book would be a crime novel.
In November 2013, Rowling handed over all earnings from the sale of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, totalling nearly £19 million. In July 2012, Rowling was featured at the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in London, where she read a few lines from J.
In a 2012 radio interview, Rowling stated that she was a member of the Scottish Episcopal Church, a province of the Anglican Communion. In 2015, following the referendum on same-sex marriage in Ireland, Rowling joked that if Ireland legalised same-sex marriage, Dumbledore and Gandalf could get married there.
Retrieved 24 December 2013.
In February 2013, she was assessed as the 13th most powerful woman in the United Kingdom by Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4. Rowling acquired the courtesy title of Laird of Killiechassie in 2001 when she purchased the historic Killiechassie House, and its surrounding estate situated on the banks of the River Tay, near Aberfeldy, in Perth and Kinross.
On 26 November 2013, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) issued Gossage a written rebuke and £1,000 fine for breaching privacy rules. On 17 February 2014, Rowling announced that the second Cormoran Strike novel, named The Silkworm, would be released in June 2014.
In November 2013, Rowling handed over all earnings from the sale of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, totalling nearly £19 million. In July 2012, Rowling was featured at the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in London, where she read a few lines from J.
Retrieved 6 December 2014. Rowling has said that her teenage years were unhappy.
Retrieved 6 December 2014.
On 26 November 2013, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) issued Gossage a written rebuke and £1,000 fine for breaching privacy rules. On 17 February 2014, Rowling announced that the second Cormoran Strike novel, named The Silkworm, would be released in June 2014.
When you find yourself contemplating shoplifting to get nappies, it is the money." Due to her residency in Scotland, Rowling was eligible to vote in the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence, during the run up to which she campaigned for the "No" vote.
It is not difficult to guess which newspaper Rowling gives him to read [in Goblet of Fire]." In 2014, she successfully sued the Mail for libel over an article about her time as a single mother.
(guest editor) (28 April 2014).
The series aired in three parts from 15 February to 1 March 2015. ===Cormoran Strike=== In 2007, during the Edinburgh Book Festival, author Ian Rankin claimed that his wife spotted Rowling "scribbling away" at a detective novel in a café.
It sees Strike investigating the disappearance of a writer hated by many of his old friends for insulting them in his new novel. In 2015, Rowling stated on Galbraith's website that the third Cormoran Strike novel would include "an insane amount of planning, the most I have done for any book I have written so far.
I have colour-coded spreadsheets so I can keep a track of where I am going." On 24 April 2015, Rowling announced that work on the third book was completed.
Titled Career of Evil, it was released on 20 October 2015 in the United States, and on 22 October 2015 in the United Kingdom. In 2017, the BBC released a Cormoran Strike television series, starring Tom Burke as Cormoran Strike, it was picked up by HBO for distribution in the United States and Canada. In March 2017, Rowling revealed the fourth novel's title via Twitter in a game of "Hangman" with her followers.
The site includes 18,000 words of information on characters, places and objects in the Harry Potter universe. In October 2015, Rowling announced via Pottermore that a two-part play she had co-authored with playwrights Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, was the "eighth Harry Potter story" and that it would focus on the life of Harry Potter's youngest son Albus after the epilogue of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
On 28 October 2015, the first round of tickets went on sale and sold out in several hours. ===The Ickabog=== Starting on 26 May 2020 and running until 10 July 2020, Rowling published a new children's story online.
Rowling compared some Scottish Nationalists with the Death Eaters, characters from Harry Potter who are scornful of those without pure blood. On 22 October 2015, a letter was published in The Guardian signed by Rowling (along with over 150 other figures from arts and politics) opposing the cultural boycott of Israel, and announcing the creation of a network for dialogue, called Culture for Coexistence.
In a 2012 radio interview, Rowling stated that she was a member of the Scottish Episcopal Church, a province of the Anglican Communion. In 2015, following the referendum on same-sex marriage in Ireland, Rowling joked that if Ireland legalised same-sex marriage, Dumbledore and Gandalf could get married there.
Rowling, Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and Importance of Imagination, illustrated by Joel Holland, Sphere, 14 April 2015, 80 pages (). Rowling, J.
The first film was released in November 2016 and is set roughly 70 years before the events of the main series.
In 2016, it was announced that the series would consist of five films.
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.
She was named the world's highest paid author in 2017 and 2019 by Forbes with net earnings of £72 million ($95 million) and $92 million respectively. ===Remarriage and family=== On 26 December 2001, Rowling married Neil Murray (born 30 June 1971), a Scottish doctor, in a private ceremony at her home, Killiechassie House, in Scotland.
Titled Career of Evil, it was released on 20 October 2015 in the United States, and on 22 October 2015 in the United Kingdom. In 2017, the BBC released a Cormoran Strike television series, starring Tom Burke as Cormoran Strike, it was picked up by HBO for distribution in the United States and Canada. In March 2017, Rowling revealed the fourth novel's title via Twitter in a game of "Hangman" with her followers.
While intended for a 2017 release, Rowling tweeted the book was taking longer than expected and would be the longest book in the series thus far.
The second, The Crimes of Grindelwald, was released in November 2018. ===Financial success=== In 2004, Forbes named Rowling as the first person to become a US-dollar billionaire by writing books, the second-richest female entertainer and the 1,062nd richest person in the world.
The book was released 18 September 2018.
Since late 2019, Rowling has publicly voiced her opinions on transgender people and related civil rights.
She was named the world's highest paid author in 2017 and 2019 by Forbes with net earnings of £72 million ($95 million) and $92 million respectively. ===Remarriage and family=== On 26 December 2001, Rowling married Neil Murray (born 30 June 1971), a Scottish doctor, in a private ceremony at her home, Killiechassie House, in Scotland.
In 2010, she donated another £10 million to the centre, and in 2019 a further £15 million.
In 2020, her "political fairytale" for children, The Ickabog, was released in instalments in an online version. 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.
Biographers have suggested that Rowling suffered domestic abuse during her marriage, which Rowling later confirmed; Arantes stated in an article for The Sun in June 2020 that he had slapped her and did not regret it.
The fifth novel in the series, titled Troubled Blood, was published in September 2020.
On 28 October 2015, the first round of tickets went on sale and sold out in several hours. ===The Ickabog=== Starting on 26 May 2020 and running until 10 July 2020, Rowling published a new children's story online.
A print edition was released on 10 November 2020 and contains illustrations selected from entries to a competition running concurrently with the online publication.
In April 2009, she announced that she was withdrawing her support for Multiple Sclerosis Society Scotland, citing her inability to resolve an ongoing feud between the organisation's northern and southern branches that had sapped morale and led to several resignations. ===Covid-19=== In May 2020, Rowling announced the publication of children's novel The Ickabog, with all author royalties being donated to charities supporting those affected by covid-19.
Actress Noma Dumezweni (who played Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) initially expressed support for Rowling but backtracked following backlash. On 10 June 2020, Rowling published a 3,600-word essay on her website in response to the criticism.
The essay was nominated by the BBC for their annual Russell Prize for best writing. In August 2020, Rowling returned her Robert F.
The 2021 Sunday Times Rich List estimated Rowling's fortune at £820 million, ranking her as the 196th richest person in the UK.
In May 2021, Troubled Blood won the Crime and Thriller Book of the Year at the British Book Awards. ===Subsequent Harry Potter publications=== Rowling has said it is unlikely she will write any more books in the Harry Potter series.
Rowling stated that all royalties from the book would be donated to charities helping groups strongly impacted by covid-19. ===The Christmas Pig=== On 13 April 2021 it was announced that Rowling would be publishing a new children's novel, entitled The Christmas Pig, due to be released in October 2021.
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