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J.K. Rowling The Harry Potter author has gone on to write mystery novels for an adult audience under the pen name Robert Galbraith.

J.K. Rowling

British author
Also known as: Joanne Kathleen Rowling, Robert Galbraith
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J.K. Rowling (born July 31, 1965, Yate, near Bristol, England) is a British author and the creator of the popular and critically acclaimed Harry Potter series, about a young sorcerer in training. After graduating from the University of Exeter in 1986, Rowling began working for Amnesty International in London, where she started to write the Harry Potter adventures. In the early 1990s she traveled to Portugal to teach English as a foreign language, but, after...

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