While the Wizarding world is entirely fictional, Rowling draws on a number of historical events and practices to build and expand Harry's world. She also published several crime novels under the pen name Robert Galbraith and has written the screenplays for the films in the Fantastic Beasts franchise. In 2004 she became the first billionaire to make her fortune writing books, though her donations to charity mean that she's since lost her billionaire status. She also remarried in 2001 and had two more children. auction for the publishing rights allowed Rowling to buy a flat in Edinburgh and over the next ten years, Rowling wrote and published the next six books in the series. She finished Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in 1995 and after its publication in 1997, Rowling began her rise to fame. Over the next few years, Rowling married, had her first daughter, divorced, and signed up for welfare benefits.

Rowling's mother died in December of that year, and Rowling channeled much of her grief into the novel. She conceived of the first Harry Potter book in 1990 and began to write immediately. She graduated from the University of Exeter in 1986 and then worked as a researcher and a secretary in London. She was the first of two children and has said that she was a very unhappy teen: her mother suffered from multiple sclerosis and her relationship with her father was strained. Rowling's father was an aircraft mechanic and her mother was a science technician.

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