JK Rowling feared that her first husband would have burned the manuscript of her first Harry Potter book if she had left it at home.The 57-year-old multimillionaire writer was married to 56-year-old Portuguese ex-television journalist Jorge Arantes from 1992 to 1995; the couple have 27-year-old daughter Jessica. The author said she was forced to smuggle […]
Major League Quidditch will seek a name change to avoid copyright infringement in light of continued growth and to distance itself from “Harry Potter” author JK Rowling, MLQ and US Quidditch said in a joint statement. In a statement released earlier this week, the groups said the league was unable to grow because the name […]
The attempt to understand JK Rowling’s anti-transsexual rhetoric by humanizing it is the new play TERF (Assembly Rooms Ballroom, Edinburgh, until 25 August) premiered at both the most opportune and the most unfortunate time. Premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe, just a few blocks away from the cafe where Rowling famously finished the first of her […]
