J.K. Rowling

JK Rowling admits having had ’suicidal thoughts’

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March 23, 2008 5:30 pm

The creator of the blockbuster Harry Poter books, JK Rowling, admitted she had “suicidal thoughts” after separating from her first husband in the mid-1990s, in an interview published Sunday. Mid-twenties ... Read more »

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Finishing with Potter worse than divorce, says Rowling

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January 30, 2008 6:39 pm

Finishing with Harry Potter was more painful than divorce, the author of the boy wizard blockbuster tales J.K. Rowling said Tuesday. The billionaire author, who wrote her seventh and last ... Read more »

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Amazon.com Buys Rowling Fairy Tale for $4 Million

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December 14, 2007 4:31 pm

Amazon.com Inc., which has sold more than 12 million Harry Potter books online, said it bought J.K. Rowling’s handwritten volume of fairy tales for 1.95 million pounds ($3.98 million) at ... Read more »

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J.K. Rowling Reads `Beedle the Bard’ Fairy Tale at Sotheby’s

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December 11, 2007 3:58 pm

J.K. Rowling, the only billionaire author on Forbes magazine’s list of the wealthiest people in the U.K., read a story last night at Sotheby’s in London from a book that ... Read more »

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Potter makes history as fastest-selling book

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July 24, 2007 3:43 pm

money just keeps pouring in for a first billionaire writer ever J.K Rowling The seventh and final volume in the Harry Potter series has become the fastest selling book in history, publishers said on Monday, with more than 11 million copies sold during the first 24 hours in three markets alone.

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Rowling first billionaire through writing

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June 27, 2007 1:38 am

author J K Rowling the first person to become a US dollar billionaire by writing books!   “The phenomenal thing about this is at the time it was printed, it ... Read more »

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JK Rowling on billionaire list

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May 6, 2007 9:20 am

HARRY Potter author JK Rowling has become the only British woman on the exclusive Forbes 2007 list of the world’s US dollar billionaires. http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=3&id=378332007

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