Joanne Rowling. Kathleen isn't her middle name she just had to chose another initial and she chose K for Kathleen after her grandmother. She thought young boys would be turned off by a book made by a women, so with those two initials you wouldn't be able to tell. True story, I read it in a biography on JK Rowling.
Joanne Rowling Although she writes under the pen name "J. K. Rowling", pronounced rolling her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply "Joanne Rowling". Before publishing her first book, her publisher Bloomsbury feared that the target audience of young boys might be reluctant to buy books written by a female author. It requested that Rowling use two initials, rather than reveal her first name. As she had no middle name, she chose K. for Kathleen as the second initial of her pseudonym, from her paternal grandmother. The name Kathleen has never been part of her real name. Following her marriage, she sometimes uses the name Joanne Murray when conducting private matters She calls herself "Jo" and says, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry." I suppose you mean her full name, so the answer is Joanne Kathleen Rowling. Joanne is her mother's name, Kathleen is her grandmother;s.
It is Joanne Rowling. She doesn't have a middle name, to those of you who insist that it is 'Katherine.' I chose her for a speech at school and consider myself an expert. But it IS true that she was worried that publicly announcing that she was a girl would not attract male readers to the series, and she put J. Rowling, with a K after it because K was next in the alphabet, so it sounded alright.
Although she writes under the pen name "J. K. Rowling", pronounced like "rolling" her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply "Joanne Rowling". Her publisher Bloomsbury feared that the target audience of young boys might be reluctant to buy books written by a female author, and requested that she use two initials, rather than reveal her first name. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pseudonym, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen; it has never been part of her legal name. Following her marriage, her legal name is Joanne Murray, which she uses when conducting her personal business. She calls herself "Jo" and said, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry."
Joanne Rowling . The K is there, because here literary agent suggested she use initials so that more boys would read her book. so, she used the K from her grandmother Kathleen, since JK Rowling had no middle name
Kathleen. JK Rowlings full name is Joanne Kathleen Rowling :)
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Joanne Kathleen Rowling.
Jessica Rowling's full name is Joanne Rowling. She is the author of the Harry Potter series.
Joanne Kathleen Rowling :D
Joanne Kathleen Rowling :)
J K Rowling, in full Joanne Kathleen Rowling, is a British author and a creator of the famous Harry Potter book series. She faced so much rejection and criticism for her writings. With a failed marriage and a toddler to feed, she was in depression for a long time. J.K Rowling pitch for #HarryPotter was rejected 12 times yet she did not lose hope and gave all her effort to publish Harry Potter.
The full name of the school attended by JK Rowling's character Harry Potter is called Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
J.K. Rowling is a British author best known for creating the Harry Potter series, which became a global literary sensation. She is also known for her philanthropic work and advocacy for various social issues.
J.K. Rowling has stated multiple times that she doesn't plan to write any more Harry Potter books. However, she has said that the Potter characters are "still living on in her head" and "in 20 years she might consider it" but the chances are pretty slim. Currently, she is working on a website called PotterMore, which is all about Harry Potter, and scheduled to open in the fall. However, she has revealed plans to eventually publish a Harry Potter Encyclopedia, full of facts about Harry's world.
Yes, Harry's full name is Harry James Potter.
For a full list of statements JK Rowling has given you can look on wikipedia. She explains about many of the Harry Potter characters jobs and family life. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Deathly_Hallows#Epilogue For some information regarding this.
J.K Rowling used to be poor , she used to live in her car,My dad told me that J.K Rowling started harry potter in a Cafe' Now i hear that she is Richer than the Queen of England J.K Rowling ROCKS!
JK Rowling's actual full name was Joanne Rowling. However, editors of Rowling's first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, thought that many readers wouldn't be interested in a book written by a female author, so they told Rowling to change her name so that there were first and middle name initials followed by the last name, so that readers wouldn't know that Rowling is female. Since Rowling didn't have a middle name, she chose Kathleen as her middle name, after her paternal grandmother. Her new full name became Joanne Kathleen Rowling and was shortened to J.K. Rowling (so that readers wouldn't know she was female).
Harry Potter is not based on an actual person. JK Rowling has been quoted as saying: I had been writing almost continuously since the age of six but I had never been so excited about an idea before. I simply sat and thought, for four (delayed train) hours, and all the details bubbled up in my brain, and this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who did not know he was a wizard became more and more real to me. The actor who brought Harry to life on the screen is Daniel Radcliffe. Radcliffe played Harry Potter in all of the movies.