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Rowling

American

[roh-ling] / ˈroʊ lɪŋ /

noun

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

Rowling British

/ ˈrəʊlɪŋ /

noun

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)

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An Edinburgh cafe where JK Rowling wrote parts of the Harry Potter books has reopened more than four years after being badly damaged in a fire.

From BBC

Rowling has described working on her early books in The Elephant House in the late 1990s and often sat at an antique wooden table which was salvaged from the blaze.

From BBC

Mr Taylor said Rowling was a regular customer in the 1990s.

From BBC

The room where Rowling used to sit now displays her portrait, alongside those of fellow Edinburgh writers Ian Rankin, Alexander McCall Smith and Irvine Welsh.

From BBC

Rowling series for themselves—often rereading, committing passages to memory and challenging one another to answer esoteric trivia questions.

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