J.K. Rowling Biography

Fast Facts

• Founded Lumos, a charity dedicated to helping disadvantaged children
• Was awarded an OBE for services to children's literature
• Earned a degree in French and Classics from Exeter University, spending a year in Paris as part of her studies
• Served as a researcher at Amnesty International during her postgraduate work
• Best known for writing the best-selling "Harry Potter" series, which she started during a delay in a train trip from Manchester to London King's Cross
• Published a detective novel called "The Cuckoo's Calling" under the pen name Robert Galbraith in order to work without the hype surrounding her "Harry Potter" fame, but her new persona was leaked by a law firm
• Stated that if she was sorted into one of the houses of her fictional wizarding school, Hogwarts, she would like it to be Gryffindor, the house that values courage