Her editors at Bloomsbury didn't want to put a woman's name on a book with a boy protagonist, and asked Rowling if she'd mind using her initials instead. That's the same trick S. Hinton used when she published The Outsiders in Rowling remembered her beloved grandmother Kathleen, and supplied the now-famous initials J.
Friends call her "Jo," but fan communities still refer to her as "JKR" lo these two decades later. MyAlias Answer has 30 votes. Currently voted the best answer. Before publishing her first volume, Bloomsbury feared that the target group of young boys might be reluctant to buy books written by a female author.
They requested that Rowling use two initials, rather than reveal her first name. As she had no middle name, she chose K from her grandmother's name Kathleen, as the second initial of her pseudonym. The name Kathleen has never been part of her legal name. Under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, J. Rowling also writes crime novels, featuring private detective Cormoran Strike.
The fifth book, Troubled Blood is now out and was also an instant bestseller. Rowling collaborated with playwright Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany on an original new story for the stage. Rowling made her screenwriting debut with the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them , a further extension of the Wizarding World, which was released to critical acclaim in November This was the first in a series of new adventures featuring Magizoologist Newt Scamander and set before the time of Harry Potter.
In March , J. Rowling and Wizarding World partners launched the Harry Potter At Home initiative to entertain children stuck at home during the Covid pandemic with the first Harry Potter book read aloud by celebrities on video, and made available for free through audiobook and ebook streaming. In May , J. Rowling has been married to Dr Neil Murray since They live in Edinburgh with their son, David born and daughter, Mackenzie born Lumos sheds light on the root causes of family separation — poverty, conflict and discrimination — and demonstrates that children can safely be united with loving families that help them thrive.
The Anne Rowling Clinic was founded by a donation from J. Rowling in in memory of her mother Anne, who died in from complications related to multiple sclerosis. The Clinic delivers clinical care and research to improve the lives of people with degenerative conditions affecting the brain, as well as hosting specialist NHS clinics for these conditions. Rowling also supports a wide range of projects and organisations through her charitable trust, Volant, which she set up in to administer grants to charities, primarily in Scotland, which help alleviate social deprivation particularly affecting women and children.
In addition to donating directly, J. Rowling makes substantial donations to charity in the form of book royalties. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses.
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