British author J. K. Rowling, who is behind the best-selling Harry Potter series, lashed out at a Kansas-based extremist church on Twitter following the latter’s antigay marriage tweet.
EVEN the most supremely gifted of writers would usually be satisfied with the creation of an internationally bestselling series of...
J.K. Rowling always said that the seventh Harry Potter book, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” would be the last in the series, and so far she has kept to her word. But though she’s written many new things in the intervening nine years, including four adult novels, she’s never been able to put Harry to rest or to leave him alone.
Stefan Bachmann is only 19, but his darkly mysterious debut novel set in a parallel world of faeries, goblins and child snatchers has already earned him comparisons to J.K. Rowling, Dickens and Dostoyevsky.
J.K. Rowling can’t seem to stop dropping one “Harry Potter” shocker after another.
For more than 10 years, all she had known was magic. Since 1997, J.K. Rowling has made money appear out of thin air—making herself wealthier than the Queen of England at one point—and famous worldwide by conjuring from her “riddikulus” imagination the boy wizard Harry Potter through seven books that also turned young-adult fiction into a publishing creature of mythical stature.
NEWTON, N.J. — Wizards and muggles have turned out in droves for a Harry Potter-themed celebration in a small community, so much so the town is now looking to turn it into an annual event.
J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series may have been around for sometime, but Bloomsbury Publishing has found a fresh way to keep fans engaged to its collection of books.
It was the perfect end to a childhood obsession. It was Christmas in 1999 when Tata Enerio’s parents gave her...
Full disclosure: I never would have guessed.
