Can sum1 tel me all about jk rowling?
Joanne “Jo” Murray, née Rowling OBE (born 31 July 1965),[1] who writes under the pen name J. K. Rowling,[2] is an English writer and author of the Harry Potter fantasy series. The Potter books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, and sold nearly 400 million books.[3] The 2007 Sunday Times Rich List estimated Rowling’s fortune at £545 million, ranking her as the 136th richest person and the thirteenth richest woman in Britain.[4] Forbes has named Rowling the second-richest female entertainer in the world[5] and ranked her as the forty-eighth most powerful celebrity of 2007.[6] Rowling has parlayed Harry Potter into a global brand worth an estimated $15 billion (£7 billion).[7] She has also gained recognition for sparking an interest in reading among the young at a time when children were thought to be abandoning the book for the computer and the television.[8] She has become a notable philanthropist, supporting such charities as Comic Relief, the Multiple Sclerosis Soci
