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Jo goes by JK Rowling because her publisher feared that young boys, who were the target audience of the Harry Potter series, might be reluctant to buy a book by which the author is female. But, Kathleen is not Jo's middle name. In fact, Jo does not have a middle name. She took on Kathleen as her pen name's middle name because that was her grandmothers name, but it is not her legal name.

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