Was J.K. Rowling poor ever

Answer 1

Yes, she has earned more than £5 every second for the past year. the wizarding world mastermind made over £162 (300 million) in the last year, which is over 6 times more than her closest competition, James Patterson.

Answer 2

Although Rowling worked from age 21 to age 28, she did not make many savings. Nor did her husband. Following their divorce, there were not many marital assets, so she returned to Britain with next to nothing.

She had a baby, so she could not go out to work. The cost of childcare would have been more than she was likely to earn, and she wanted to bring up her child herself. So for a few years she lived off government benefits. In Britain this is enough money to prevent starvation, but it doesn't buy a single luxury.

The stories of her poverty are sometimes exaggerated. She later found work as a French teacher. So even if the Harry Potter books hadn't been so successful, she would have had a career as a teacher and she would not have remained poor.

Answer 3

Yes, J.K. Rowling experienced poverty before the success of the Harry Potter series. She was a struggling single mother living on welfare benefits while working on the first Harry Potter book.

Answer 4

she went from living on welfare to being multi-millionaire within a few years.

Answer 5

She was certainly very poor at University, doing a French degree, then English, she was a struggling single mother when she first thought of Harry Potter.

Answer 6

yes she could not even pay for her flat to be heated

Answer 7

nope she was just poor, never homeless

Answer 8

no she was not