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Rowling

[ roh-ling ]

noun

  1. J(oanne) K(athleen), born 1965, English author.


Rowling

/ ˈrəʊlɪŋ /

noun

  1. RowlingJ(oanne) K(athleen)1965FBritishWRITING: novelist J ( oanne ) K ( athleen ). born 1965, British novelist; author of the bestselling series of children's books featuring the boy wizard Harry Potter, which began with Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1995)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The Harry Potter prequel could have explored a whole new corner of the wondrous world Rowling once built.

From Time

Still, the initial wave of backlash against Rowling was significant.

From Vox

Following the rumors of the new series, many fans voiced variants of the same idea — their worry that Rowling would profit from any new Harry Potter series.

From Vox

People who choose to buy into it, to speculate eagerly over casting and plots and writing and direction, would be sending a message that they care more about the Harry Potter universe than they do about the fans Rowling has hurt.

From Vox

Rowling’s views received international media attention and backlash, but she wasn’t shamed into silence.

From Vox

Back in December, and just in time for Hanukkah, J.K. Rowling revealed via Twitter that there were Jewish wizards at Hogwarts.

Author J.K. Rowling says all religions are present at her beloved wizard school—except Wiccans.

Rowling is careful, explicit even, to note that this woman was not “the real Dolores Umbridge.”

That same day—July 8—Rowling released a new Harry Potter story on her website Pottermore.

In The Silkworm, Rowling deploys this knack with an almost perfect touch.

O, what a pity it is not the outside of the light'us, with the sea a-rowling agin it!

THe performance of this tricke consisteth in the rowling up of the towe.

Some of Jane's earliest extant letters were written from Rowling.

He has not been at the races at all, unless his driving Miss Pearson over to Rowling one day can be so called.

The Hawkes Bill peare is of a middle size, somewhat like unto the Rowling peare.

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