| Harry Potter author JK Rowling is looking for a mind-reader to take charge of the third film about her schoolboy wizard. |
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| J K Rowling has been particularly secretive about the plot, but she has released a couple of short extracts as a teaser. |
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| Nowhere do we see a case for Rowling being as allegorical as C.S. Lewis or as skilled with metaphor as Roald Dahl. |
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| Once she had graduated, Rowling worked on supply for a year, teaching French. |
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| The famously reclusive millionaire writer JK Rowling has revealed that even as a child she hid away from the world, burying herself in books and daydreams. |
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| In the Harry Potter universe as created by J.K. Rowling, the sport of quidditch plays an important and exciting role. |
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| I doubt Ms Rowling read Ginzburg before inventing Harry Potter, so we must be looking at a folk memory re-emerging periodically along highly structured symbolic axes. |
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| The function was hosted by Rowling and her doctor husband Neil Murray, whose spectacular entertainment included witches, wizards, minstrels and sword-swallowers. |
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| The firm is owned by Robert Rowling, a Dallas-based oilman and major bankroller of conservative causes. |
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| Then last weekend the Sunday Times broke the story of her authorship, and Rowling quickly fessed up. |
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| The secret is out now that J.K. Rowling pseudonymously wrote a detective novel, but is it any good? |
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| After all of the adventures at Hogwarts, Rowling may be saying, all you want to do is snuggle up with a cup of tea and a vicar. |
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| For after having written books of magic for a magical age, Rowling has come out with a book of muggle life for muggles. |
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| Rowling moved from her flat with the money from the Scholastic sale, into 19 Hazelbank Terrace in Edinburgh. |
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| Its sequel, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, was published in July 1998 and again Rowling won the Smarties Prize. |
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| Rowling said that she had had a crisis while writing the novel and had to rewrite one chapter many times to fix a problem with the plot. |
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| This gap led to press speculation that Rowling had developed writer's block, speculations she denied. |
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| The first film, scripted by Rowling, was released in November 2016 and is set roughly 70 years before the events of the main series. |
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| Rowling disputed the calculations and said she had plenty of money, but was not a billionaire. |
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| Rowling is a friend of Sarah Brown, wife of former prime minister Gordon Brown, whom she met when they collaborated on a charitable project. |
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| When Sarah Brown's son Fraser was born in 2003, Rowling was one of the first to visit her in hospital. |
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| In July 2011, Rowling parted company with her agent, Christopher Little, moving to a new agency founded by one of his staff, Neil Blair. |
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| Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist, screenwriter and film producer best known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series. |
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| In a press release, Rowling said that her new book would be quite different from Harry Potter. |
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| Rowling collaborated on the adaptation, serving as an executive producer for the series. |
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| In response, a tweeter called Jude Callegari said that the author was Rowling. |
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| Rowling has said it is unlikely she will write any more books in the Harry Potter series. |
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| On 1 October 2010, in an interview with Oprah Winfrey, Rowling stated a new book on the saga might happen. |
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| 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. |
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| Rowling's sister Dianne was born at their home when Rowling was 23 months old. |
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| As a child, Rowling often wrote fantasy stories which she frequently read to her sister. |
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| Aged nine, Rowling moved to Church Cottage in the Gloucestershire village of Tutshill, close to Chepstow, Wales. |
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| Rowling later said that she based the character of Hermione Granger on herself when she was eleven. |
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| Rowling recalls doing little work, preferring to listen to The Smiths and read Dickens and Tolkien. |
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| Rowling was writing Harry Potter at the time and had never told her mother about it. |
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| An advertisement in The Guardian led Rowling to move to Porto, Portugal, to teach English as a foreign language. |
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| Biographers have suggested that Rowling suffered domestic abuse during her marriage, although the extent is unknown. |
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| Seven years after graduating from university, Rowling saw herself as a failure. |
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| During this period, Rowling was diagnosed with clinical depression and contemplated suicide. |
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| Rowling was left in despair after her estranged husband arrived in Scotland, seeking both her and her daughter. |
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| In 1995, Rowling finished her manuscript for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone on an old manual typewriter. |
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| Rowling collaborated with Sarah Brown to write a book of children's stories to aid One Parent Families. |
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| In January 2006, Rowling went to Bucharest to highlight the use of caged beds in mental institutions for children. |
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| Rowling gave away the remaining six copies to those who have a close connection with the Harry Potter books. |
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| In 2008, Rowling agreed to publish the book with the proceeds going to Lumos. |
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| In 2003, Rowling took part in a campaign to establish a national standard of care for MS sufferers. |
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| Rowling has described Jane Austen as her favourite author, calling Emma her favourite book in O, The Oprah Magazine. |
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| Rowling compared some Scottish Nationalists with the Death Eaters, characters from Harry Potter who are scornful of those without pure blood. |
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| In 2007, Rowling described having been brought up in the Church of England. |
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| In 2007, Rowling's young son, David, assisted by Rowling and her husband, lost a court fight to ban publication of a photograph of him. |
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| Rowling claimed she had to leave her former home in Merchiston because of press intrusion. |
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| Rowling received a large amount of creative control for the film, an arrangement that Columbus did not mind. |
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| Rowling had overall approval on the scripts, which were viewed and discussed by the director and the producers. |
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| Rowling has been constantly supportive of the films, and evaluated Deathly Hallows as her favourite one in the series. |
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| The series has been translated into 67 languages, placing Rowling among the most translated authors in history. |
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| Rowling named Charlie and the Chocolate Factory one of her top ten books every child should read. |
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| They live near the authors JK Rowling, Alexander McCall Smith and Kate Atkinson. |
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| Those of us who didn't want OBHWF felt that Rowling was making a mistake, not that she was being misleading. |
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| Rowling expressed her indecision about the title in an Entertainment Weekly interview. |
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| The fans who believed in the canonical pairing were outraged that Rowling would say such things about their beloved Romione. |
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| In The silkworm, Rowling deploys this knack with an almost perfect touch. |
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| The name Snape was made famous by JK Rowling when she used it to christen the anti-hero potions master Severus Snape in the Harry Potter novels. |
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| After working at Amnesty International in London, Rowling and her then boyfriend decided to move to Manchester, where she worked at the Chamber of Commerce. |
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| In June 2011, Rowling announced that future Harry Potter projects, and all electronic downloads, would be concentrated in a new website, called Pottermore. |
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| After a year of study in Paris, Rowling graduated from Exeter in 1986 and moved to London to work as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International. |
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| Rowling also admitted that the fourth book was the most difficult to write at the time, because she noticed a giant plot hole halfway through writing. |
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| Jeff Jensen, who interviewed Rowling for Entertainment Weekly in 2000, pointed out that bigotry is a big theme in the Harry Potter novels and Goblet of Fire in particular. |
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| Mitford became Rowling's heroine, and Rowling read all of her books. |
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| In 2007, Rowling stated that she planned to write an encyclopaedia of Harry Potter's wizarding world consisting of various unpublished material and notes. |
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| Soon after the revelation, Brooks pondered whether Jude Callegari could have been Rowling as part of wider speculation that the entire affair had been a publicity stunt. |
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| 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. |
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| Rowling said that she had enjoyed working under a pseudonym. |
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| If you're an aspiring footballer, David Beckham may be your role model, while if you're a wannabe author, JK Rowling would be someone you look up to. |
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| Rowling disputes her reputation as a recluse who hates to be interviewed. |
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| By 2011, Rowling had taken more than 50 actions against the press. |
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| The family moved to the nearby village Winterbourne when Rowling was four. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Rowling announced that Fantastic Beasts will be a five film series. |
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| Rowling was named Author of the Year in the 2000 British Book Awards. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Later Ms Rowling sent Catie a toy Pigwidgeon, an owl from her new book. |
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