INTRODUCTION

Joanne Rowling, born 31 July 1965), writing under the pen

names [Link]- British novelist, philanthropist, film
producer, television producer and screenwriter, best known for
writing the Harry Potter fantasy series.
The books have won multiple awards, and sold more than 500 million
copies, becoming the best-selling book series in history.
They have also been the basis for a film series, over which Rowling
had overall approval on the scripts and was a producer on the final
films in the series.

THE BOOKS WRITTEN BY HER AND HOW

She was born and brought up in England,was working as a researcher
and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International.
The first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's
Stone, was published in 1997. There were six sequels, of which the
last, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, was released in 2007.
Since then, Rowling has written five books for adult readers: The
Casual Vacancy (2012) and—under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith
—the crime fiction novels The Cuckoo's Calling (2013), The
Silkworm (2014), Career of Evil (2015), and Lethal White(2018).

HER LIVING
Rowling has lived a "rags to riches" life story, in which she
progressed from living on state benefits to being the world's first
billionaire author.
She lost her billionaire status after giving away much of her earnings
to charity, but remains one of the wealthiest people in the world. 
She is the United Kingdom's bestselling living author, with sales in
excess of £238M,which is equal to 23.8crores.
The 2016 Sunday Times Rich List estimated Rowling's fortune at
£600 million,(which is equal to 60crores) ranking her as the joint
197th richest person in the UK. 
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. 
In October 2010, Rowling was named the "Most Influential Woman
in Britain" by leading magazine editors.
She has supported charities, including Comic Relief, One Parent
Families and Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain, and
launched her own charity.

THE REAL TO REEL

Although she writes under the pen name J. K. Rowling, her name,
before her remarriage, was Joanne Rowling.
Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to
read a book written by a woman, her publishers asked that she use
two initials rather than her full name.
As she had no middle name, she chose K (for Kathleen) as the second
initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother. She calls
herself Jo.
 
INSPIRATION TOWARDS HER WRITING
After working as a researcher and bilingual secretary in London
for Amnesty International, Rowling moved to Manchester, where she
worked at the Chamber of Commerce. In 1990, while she was on a
four-hour-delayed train trip from Manchester to London, the idea for
a story of a young boy attending a school of wizardry "came fully
formed" into her mind.
When she had reached her Clapham Junction flat, she began to write
immediately. In December, Rowling's mother, Anne, died after ten
years suffering from multiple sclerosis. Rowling was writing Harry
Potter at the time and had never told her mother about it. Her mother's
death heavily affected Rowling's writing, and she channelled her own
feelings of loss by writing about Harry's own feelings of loss in
greater detail in the first book.

ABOUT HER WRITING

Harry Potter
Main article: Harry Potter

The Elephant House, one of the cafés in Edinburgh in which Rowling

wrote the first Harry Potter novel[61]

In 1995, Rowling finished her manuscript for Harry Potter and

the Philosopher's Stone on an old manual typewriter.
Upon the enthusiastic response of Bryony Evens, a reader who
had been asked to review the book's first three chapters.
The book was submitted to twelve publishing houses, all of
which rejected the manuscript. A year later she was finally
given the green light (and a £1,500 advance) by editor Barry
Cunningham from Bloomsbury, a publishing house in London. 
The decision to publish Rowling's book owes much to Alice
Newton, the eight-year-old daughter of Bloomsbury's chairman,
who was given the first chapter to review by her father and
immediately demanded the next.
 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. 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.
Today, such copies are valued between £16,000 and £25,000. 
Five months later, 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.
In October 1998, Scholastic published Philosopher's Stone in
the US under the title of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

Rowling at the US National Press Club, 1999

Its sequel, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, was

published in July 1998 and again Rowling won the Smarties
Prize.
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.
She later withdrew the fourth Harry Potter novel from
contention to allow other books a fair chance.
In January 2000, Prisoner of Azkaban won the
inaugural Whitbread Children's Book of the Year award.
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.
372,775 copies of the book were sold in its first day in the UK,
almost equalling the number Prisoner of Azkaban sold during
its first year. 
In the US, the book sold three million copies in its first 48 hours,
smashing all records
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 sixth book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, was
released on 16 July 2005.
It too broke all sales records, selling nine million copies in its
first 24 hours of release. 
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. 
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was released on 21 July
2007  and broke its predecessor's record as the fastest-selling
book of all time. It sold 11 million copies in the first day of
release in the United Kingdom and United States. The book's
last chapter was one of the earliest things she wrote in the
entire series.
Harry Potter is now a global brand worth an estimated
US$15 billion, and the last four Harry Potter books have
consecutively set records as the fastest-selling books in history.
The series, totalling 4,195 pages, has been translated, in whole
or in part, into 80 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 instead of usage
of computers.

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 disputed the calculations and said she had plenty of
money, but was not a billionaire. The 2016 Sunday Times Rich
List estimated Rowling's fortune at £600 million,(600crores)
ranking her as the joint 197th richest person in the UK. 
In February 2013 she was assessed as the 13th most powerful
woman in the United Kingdom by Woman's Hour on BBC Radio
4.
In 2017, Rowling was worth an estimated
£650 million(60crores)according to the Sunday Times Rich
List. 
She was named the most highly paid author in the world with
earnings of £72 million ($95 million) a year by Forbes in 2017.
£4.5 million(45crores) Georgian house in Kensington, west
London, on a street with 24-hour security.
In 2017, Rowling was worth an estimated £650 million
according to the Sunday Times Rich List.