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Joanne Catherine Rowling
J. K. Rowling is a British author best known for the "Harry Potter" series of novels.
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- Writers
- Nationality
- U.K.
- Born
- 1965-07-31
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- Q34660
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J. K. Rowling is a British author best known for the "Harry Potter" series of novels.
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was published in 1997, and the seven-part series was completed in 2007.
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She also writes the Cormoran Strike crime novel series under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.
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Marc Shapiro · 2000
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Connie Ann Kirk · 2003
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Marc Shapiro · 2001
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Colleen A. Sexton · 2006
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