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    Joanne Rowling is a British author best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series. She was born in England in 1965 and finished the first Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, in 1997. The book was an international success and spawned six more sequels in the series, which sold hundreds of millions of copies worldwide and was adapted into blockbuster films.

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    Joanne Rowling is a British author best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series. She was born in England in 1965 and finished the first Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, in 1997. The book was an international success and spawned six more sequels in the series, which sold hundreds of millions of copies worldwide and was adapted into blockbuster films.

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    Joanne Rowling is a British author best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series. She was born in England in 1965 and finished the first Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, in 1997. The book was an international success and spawned six more sequels in the series, which sold hundreds of millions of copies worldwide and was adapted into blockbuster films.

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    Born in Yate, England, on July 31, 1965,

    The work was an international hit and Rowling wrote six more books in the series, which sold
    hundreds of millions of copies and was adapted into a blockbuster film
    Franchise.
    Joanne Kathleen Rowling
    pen names J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist, screenwriter and film
    producer best known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series
    she finished the first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, in 1997.
    There were six sequels, the last, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, in 2007.
    In 1982, Rowling took the entrance exams for Oxford University but was not accepted[20] and
    read for a B.A. in French and Classics at the University of Exeter.1990
    1990 In December, Rowling's mother Anne died after ten years suffering from multiple
    sclerosis.[25] Rowling was writing Harry Potter at the time and had never told her mother
    about it.[17] Her death heavily affected Rowling's writing[17] and she introduced much more
    detail about Harry's loss in the first book, because she knew how it felt.
    She began a teacher training course in August 1995 at the Moray House School of Education,
    at Edinburgh University,
    In 1995, Rowling finished her manuscript for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
    The title of the seventh and final Harry Potter book was announced on 21 December 2006
    as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
    Rowling has contributed money and support for research and treatment of multiple sclerosis,
    from which her mother suffered before her death in 1990. In 2006, Rowling contributed a
    substantial sum toward the creation of a In 2003, Rowling took part in a campaign to
    establish a national standard of care for MS sufferers.[178]
    In April 2009, she announced that she was withdrawing her support for Multiple Sclerosis
    Society Scotland, citing her inability to resolve an ongoing feud between the organisation's
    northern and southern branches that had sapped morale and led to several resignations.
    [178]
    new Centre for Regenerative Medicine at Edinburgh University,

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