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J. K. Rowling

born 1965

J. K. Rowling is a British author best known for creating the globally successful "Harry Potter" series, which has sold over 500 million copies and been adapted into a major film franchise. Born on July 31, 1965, in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, she wrote the first Harry Potter book while struggling as a single mother and has since become one of the world's most influential and wealthiest authors. In addition to the Harry Potter series, Rowling has written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, producing the Cormoran Strike detective novels.