Rowling has won many accolades for her work. There were also religious debates over Harry Potter. Many reviewers see Rowling's writing as conventional some regard her portrayal of gender and social division as regressive. The series revived fantasy as a genre in the children's market, spawned a host of imitators, and inspired an active fandom. Its influences include Bildungsroman (the coming-of-age genre), school stories, fairy tales, and Christian allegory. Death and the divide between good and evil are the central themes of the series. The novels follow a boy called Harry Potter as he attends Hogwarts, a school for wizards, and battles Lord Voldemort. Rowling concluded the Harry Potter series with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007). Six sequels followed, and by 2008, Forbes had named her the world's highest-paid author. The seven-year period that followed saw the death of her mother, the birth of her first child, divorce from her first husband, and relative poverty until the first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was published in 1997. She writes Cormoran Strike, an ongoing crime fiction series, under the alias Robert Galbraith.īorn in Yate, Gloucestershire, Rowling was working as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International in 1990 when she conceived the idea for the Harry Potter series while on a delayed train from Manchester to London.

The Casual Vacancy (2012) was her first novel for adults. The series has sold over 600 million copies, been translated into 84 languages, and spawned a global media franchise including films and video games. She wrote Harry Potter, a seven-volume children's fantasy series published from 1997 to 2007. Rowling, is a British author and philanthropist. Because Ray and Adam have a complicated history, and starting something would be a terrible idea.Joanne Rowling CH OBE FRSL ( / ˈ r oʊ l ɪ ŋ/ 'rolling' born 31 July 1965), best known by her pen name J. K. He is too young for Ray, too cool for him, too beautiful for him…and for some bewildering reason, Adam is always there for him when Ray needs him the most.īut Ray’s not falling for it. Luckily for Ray, the last man in the world he should be interested in has distraction on his mind, and it seems like all Ray can think about is Adam Blake. (Also, the police were kinda mean, and now everyone thinks he’s a serial killer.)

Ray’s just a thirtysomething graphic designer with a broken heart who doesn’t much like his life right now.Īnd he’s already having nightmares about the whole thing, come on. If this was your classic Cotswolds murder mystery (it’s not) and Ray was an amateur detective (he isn’t) then when he stumbles across something unexpected under his bedroom floor, he’d investigate the hell out of it.

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