Amazon's 1.95million purchase set a record for a contemporary literary work and for children's literature. J.K. Rowling Says Her New Book About Celeb Deemed Transphobic Was Not Based on What 'Happened to Me' J.K. Rowling, who has received backlash for her views on feminism and gender identity, said . . The Casual Vacancy (2012) was her first novel for adults. [290] Gender divides are ostensibly absent in the books: Hogwarts is coeducational and women hold positions of power in wizarding society. [132] To her surprise and delight, Scholastic Corporation bought the rights for $105,000. June 8, 2022 [6], Joanne Rowling was born on 31 July 1965 at Cottage Hospital in Yate, Gloucestershire. [52], Her biographer Sean Smith raises the question of why Rowling chose to stay with her sister rather than her father. The mainstream war between trans activists/allies and Rowling kicked off in December 2019, when the author offered her public support to Maya Forstater a U.K. woman who was fired for expressing. [209] Ickabog is a monster that turns out to be real; a group of children find out the truth about the Ickabog and save the day. [101] Her old school friend, Sean Harris, lent her 600 ($900), which allowed her to move to a flat in Leith,[104] where she finished Philosopher's Stone. [103] Tison Pugh writes that the "grinding effects of poverty, coupled with her concern for providing for her daughter as a single parent, caused great hardship". [327] The post-Harry Potter crossover trend is associated with the fantasy genre. Rowling has always been open about her views on British politics. [65][445] Criticism of Rowling's views has come from the Harry Potter fansites MuggleNet and The Leaky Cauldron;[446] and the charities Mermaids,[427] Stonewall,[447] and Human Rights Campaign. [299] However, the series cannot wholly reject racial division, according to several scholars, as it still depicts wizards as fundamentally superior to muggles. Parents, and heroes, have feet of clay. [320] Christian analyses of the series have argued that it embraces ideals of friendship, loyalty, courage, love, and the temptation of power. But the hopefulness of this new technology brought with it the darker impulses of human nature. He represented her for the publication of The Casual Vacancy, released in September 2012 by Little, Brown and Company. But hard as she tries to reclaim it, the Wizarding World is, in many ways, lost to her. In, Ciaccio, Peter. And many have taken the actors and film creators as Harry Potter standard-bearers rather than Rowling herself. [2] Staff at Bloomsbury Publishing asked that she use two initials rather than her full name, anticipating that young boys their target audience would not want to read a book written by a woman. [41] She later described herself during this period as "the epitome of a bookish child short and squat, thick National Health glasses, living in a world of complete daydreams". People have gotten Harry Potter tattoos and themed weddingsincluding my own sister. After a number of rejections, she finally sold the book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone to a small publishing company called Bloomsbury, for about $3,000. [330] The next decade saw an increasing interest in grim, realist themes, with an outflow of fantasy readers and writers to adult works. [319], The Harry Potter books also have a group of vocal religious supporters who believe that Harry Potter espouses Christian values, or that the Bible does not prohibit the forms of magic described in the series. Joanne Rowling CH OBE FRSL (/rol/ "rolling";[1] born 31 July 1965), also known by her pen name J.K. Rowling, is a British author and philanthropist. In the 2000s, at the height of Harry Potter 's popularity, she donated to the Labour party of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Before that boy wizard was just an idea of a paper napkin in an Edinburgh cafe, she was living off welfare, divorced, and jobless. "Harry Potter and Christian theology". According to Errington, 500 hardbacks and 5,150 paperbacks "were published on the same date and neither has bibliographical priority". [92] The relationship was troubled, but they married on 16 October 1992. Jk Rowling tweets over Transgender identity (Source: Thetimes.co.uk) She also claimed that Rowling employed an "insulting stereotype" to characterize a trans woman, portraying her as violent and highlighting her body in the book . [225] Rowling expresses admiration for Lewis, in whose writing battles between good and evil are also prominent, but rejects any connection with Dahl. J.K. Rowling's new book "The Ink Back Heart" features a character persecuted and killed over her allegedly transphobic views. Advertisement. The Sorcerer's Stone hit shelves on July 26, 1997, to immediate success. [19] Anne later worked as a science technician. So far, not much. [31], Rowling sought government assistance and got 69 (US$103) per week from Social Security; not wanting to burden her recently married sister, she moved to a flat that she described as mouse-ridden. [441], Rowling's statements have been called transphobic by critics[442] and she has been referred to as a TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminist)[427][442][443] in response to her Twitter comments. [205][206] Cursed Child's script was published as a book in July 2016. JK Rowling has warned that social media is 'a gift for people who want to behave in a malign way' after she received a death threat on Twitter from an Islamic extremist in response to her support . [16][22] She began at St Michael's Church of England Primary School in Winterbourne when she was five. [408], Rowling's responses to proposed changes to UK gender recognition laws,[409][410][r] and her views on sex and gender, have provoked controversy. JK Rowling has reacted after apparently receiving multiple threats of rape and murder from trans activists. [400], Rowling has a difficult relationship with the press and has tried to influence the type of coverage she receives. [31] An advertisement in The Guardian led her to move to Porto, Portugal, in November 1991 to teach night classes in English as a foreign language,[90] writing during the day. [258][259] First impressions of characters are often misleading. 140. Feb. 16, 2023. First things first. [130], Rowling received the news that the US rights were being auctioned at the Bologna Children's Book Fair. [237] Paintings move and talk; books bite readers; letters shout messages; and maps show live journeys,[236][238] making the wizarding world "both exotic and cosily familiar" according to the scholar Catherine Butler. Beyond encyclopedia content, the post-2015 Pottermore included promotions for Warner Bros. films including Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. [355] Richard Posner describes Stouffer's suit as deeply flawed and notes that the court, finding she had used "forged and altered documents", assessed a $50,000 penalty against her. [363], Aware of the good fortune that led to her wealth and fame,[364] Rowling wanted to use her public image to help others despite her concerns about publicity and the press; she became, in the words of Smith, "emboldened to stand up and be counted on issues that were important to her". [16] The Rowlings settled in Yate,[17] where Pete started work as an assembly-line production worker at the Bristol Siddeley factory. [308] Thus, scholars suggest, the series's message is essentially conservative; it sees no reason to transform social hierarchies, only being concerned with who holds positions of power. [191] After the revelation, sales of Cuckoo's Calling escalated. He is a former Portuguese TV reporter but it is not clear what he does now. [337] In the following decades, many Harry Potter imitators and subversive responses grew popular. [31] Seven years after graduating from university, she saw herself as a failure. [338][339], Rowling has been compared with Enid Blyton, who also wrote in simple language about groups of children and long held sway over the British children's market. [367] She has donated several hundred thousand pounds to help women lawyers flee from the Taliban's control, helping hundreds of Afghans escape. Malfoy married pureblood Astoria Greengrass, who did not raise their son to believe Muggles or others were less than purebloods. It took an alleged thirteen tries for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone to gain acceptance from a publisher. As readers . [311] Some groups of Shia and Sunni Muslims also argued that the series contained satanic subtext, and it was banned in private schools in the United Arab Emirates. Misdirected faith and beliefs can be illusive and . [189] After an investigation prompted by discussion on Twitter, the journalist Richard Brooks contacted Rowling's agent, who confirmed Galbraith was Rowling's pseudonym. [206], The Ickabog was Rowling's first book aimed at children since Harry Potter. He takes a trip to London with Hagrid to buy his Hogwarts equipment (robes, wand . [393][394], In 2008, Rowling donated 1million to the Labour Party, endorsed the Labour prime minister Gordon Brown over his Conservative challenger David Cameron, and commended Labour's policies on child poverty. "[63] Pete had married his secretary within two years of Anne's death,[101] and The Scotsman reported in 2003 that "[t]he speed of his decision to move in with his secretary distressed both sisters and a fault-line now separated them and their father. [141] Two years later, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was released in July, again selling millions of copies on the first day. [176] She was the second most generous UK donor in 2015 (following the singer Elton John), giving about $14million. But only by getting hooked on a different drug Jesus as preached by Smith and his trainees. Few will know, however, of another, much darker chapter in. [219] As a child, Rowling read C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, Elizabeth Goudge's The Little White Horse, Manxmouse by Paul Gallico, and books by E. Nesbit and Noel Streatfeild. And yet somehow the internet, as a general vibe, has been able to sever Rowling and her transphobic screeds from the magical world she created with surgical, unambiguous precision. In, Singer, Rita. [40] Her marriage had failed, and she was jobless with a dependent child, but she later described this as "liberating" her to focus on writing. Its brand was associated with Rowling: she introduced the site in a video as a shared media environment to which she and Harry Potter fans would contribute. [31] She earned a BA in French from Exeter,[76] graduating in 1987 after a year of study in Paris. Nowadays, she is one of the most famous and successful . The 57-year-old author's new novel The Ink Black. All Rights Reserved. On its release, Pottermore was rooted in the Harry Potter novels, tracing the series's story in an interactive format. The award body gave Rowling the children's prize instead (worth half the cash amount), which some scholars felt exemplified a literary prejudice against children's books. She was doxxed by one user and threatened with a pipe bomb, without Twitter stepping in to do anything about the individual's. [277] Michiko Kakutani praises Rowling's fictional world and the darker tone of the series' later entries. [238] This blend of realistic and romantic elements extends to Rowling's characters. She said Mitford had "been my heroine since I was 14 years old, when I overheard my formidable great-aunt discussing how Mitford had run away at the age of 19 to fight with the Reds in the Spanish Civil War", and that what inspired her about Mitford was that she was "incurably and instinctively rebellious, brave, adventurous, funny and irreverent, she liked nothing better than a good fight, preferably against a pompous and hypocritical target". 2052. [233][283] Thus, some critics argue, Harry Potter does not innovate on established literary forms; nor does it challenge readers' preconceived ideas. JK Rowling has offered hope to aspiring authors everywhere, after revealing that the first literary agent she sent the manuscript of Harry Potter to responded with just a slip of paper rejecting . [378], Rowling has made donations to support other medical causes. Overnight, Rowling was catapulted from her small apartment in Edinburgh to worldwide recognition. [221], Rowling acknowledges Homer, Geoffrey Chaucer, and William Shakespeare as literary influences. There were also religious debates over Harry Potter. And this is the struggle facing Harry Potter . JK Rowling has revealed that Dolores Umbridge, the witch who forces Harry Potter to cut the words "I must not tell lies" on to his hand, was inspired by a real person. Honestly revisiting the books as adults, the holes and problematic aspects of the Wizarding World become more clear. [209][214], In The Christmas Pig, a young boy loses his favourite stuffed animal, a pig, and the Christmas Pig guides him through the fantastical Land of the Lost to retrieve it. She was not even invited to the 20th Anniversary Reunion Special on HBO Max. But Harry Potter isnt just a series of books anymore. [180] The 2021 Sunday Times Rich List estimated Rowling's fortune at 820million, ranking her as the 196th-richest person in the UK. I admit that at first, I had a hard time reconciling the world that meant so much to me as a child and adolescent with the more troubling one I see as an adultand especially its creator. Mr Arantes was a journalist in Portugal and has worked as a television reporter. Uncle Vernon loves Top Gear! J. K. Rowling's secret life as a wizard crime writer revealed", "This detective novel's story doesn't add up", "JK Rowling unmasked as author of acclaimed detective novel", "JK Rowling directs anger at lawyers after secret identity revealed", "Lethal White: JK Rowling reveals Strike release date", "JK Rowling announces fifth Cormoran Strike novel Troubled Blood under pseudonym Robert Galbraith", "The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith review: JK Rowling's Strike faces the social media trolls", "When is Strike: The Cuckoo's Calling on TV? Its special events and parties, and the pack groups (Fairies, Pixies, Sprites, Elves, Gnomes and Imps) provided a magical world away from her stern teacher. [470] Her other awards include the 2017 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,[471] and the 2021 British Book Awards' Crime and Thriller prize for the fifth volume of her Cormoran Strike series. [356], With her literary agents and Warner Bros., Rowling has brought legal action against publishers and writers of Harry Potter knockoffs in several countries. Its a commercial industry, a media conglomerate, a culture, and a community. Many reviewers see Rowling's writing as conventional; some regard her portrayal of gender and social division as regressive. [300] Blake and Zipes argue that numerous examples of wizardly superiority are depicted as "natural and comfortable". [396], Rowling opposed the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, due to concerns about the economic consequences, and donated 1million to the Better Together anti-independence campaign. In, Berberich, Christine. In Defense of J.K. Rowling. Profits from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through the Ages, both published in 2001, went to Comic Relief. [66][h], Living in a small town with pressures at home, Rowling became more interested in her school work. [95], Rowling experienced domestic abuse during her marriage. [188] It initially sold 1,500copies in hardback. But none of that really penetrates when youre 12. [158] Ultimately, Smith says that these concerns served to "increase her public profile rather than damage it". [366], Long interested in issues affecting women and children,[367] Rowling established the Volant Charitable Trust in 2000, named after her mother[368] to address social deprivation in at-risk women, children and youth. ", "Will there be another series of Strike? [362] Lexicon was published in 2009. [391][392] She often tweets about her political opinions using wit and sarcasm, sometimes generating controversy. [11], Anne Rowling was diagnosed with a "virulent strain" of multiple sclerosis when she was 34[59] or 35 and Jo was 15,[60] and had to give up her job. [229][230], Rowling is known primarily as an author of fantasy and children's literature. [281] Rowling's prose has been described as simple and not innovative; Le Guin, like several other critics, considers it "stylistically ordinary". [286], Reception of Rowling's later works has varied among critics. [257], While Harry Potter can be viewed as a story about good versus evil, its moral divisions are not absolute. Several years later the message was removed because all of that never happened. [110], Rowling wanted to finish the book before enrolling in a teacher training course, fearing she might not be able to finish once she started the course. These have been criticised as transphobic by LGBT rights organisations and some feminists, but have received support from other feminists and individuals. [114] Still needing money and expecting to make a living by teaching,[115] Rowling began a teacher training course in August 1995 at Moray House School of Education[116][a] after completing her first novel. In that interview, Arantes talked about how he lost his job as a journalist while battling . [309], There have been attempts to ban Harry Potter around the world, especially in the United States,[310][311] and in the Bible Belt in particular. It has earned multiple British Book Awards, beginning with the Children's Book of the Year for the first two volumes, Philosopher's Stone and Chamber of Secrets. [289], Rowling's portrayal of women in Harry Potter has been described as complex and varied, but nonetheless conforming to stereotypical and patriarchal depictions of gender. In, Last edited on 25 February 2023, at 12:45, transgender people and related civil rights, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare, Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, Political views of J. K. 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[213] Profits went to charities focused on COVID-19 relief. [212] Scholastic held a competition to select children's art for the print edition, which was published in the US and Canada on 10 November 2020. [276], Critical response to Harry Potter has been more mixed. [98] Rowling and Arantes separated on 17 November 1993 after Arantes threw her out of the house; she returned with the police to retrieve Jessica and went into hiding for two weeks before she left Portugal. [73] She later stated that Exeter was not initially what she expected ("to be among lots of similar people thinking radical thoughts") but that she enjoyed herself after she met more people like her. [369] She was appointed president of One Parent Families (now Gingerbread) in 2004,[370] after becoming its first ambassador in 2000. Harry Potter brought her wealth and recognition, which she has used to advance philanthropic endeavours and political causes. The dismissal nonetheless marks a major career repercussion for an actor still embroiled in a $50 million defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife, actress Amber Heard, who wrote an op-ed for The. [236] Her narrative features two worlds the mundane and the fantastic but it differs from typical portal fantasy in that its magical elements stay grounded in the everyday. Death and the divide between good and evil are the central themes of the series. Critical reception has been more mixed. She co-founded the charity Lumos and established the Volant Charitable Trust, named after her mother. "By every usual standard, I was the biggest failure I knew," said Rowling. JK Rowling has claimed that every woman who has been "harassed, silenced or bullied" for gender critical views is safer after a campaigner won an employment tribunal. "I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain without being homeless," she said . Harry Potter fan-fiction has flourished online, becoming a genre of its own. [102] She later described her economic status as being as "poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless".
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