Rowling, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. During the Leveson Inquiry she See also: Robert GalbraithĪlthough she writes under the pen name J.K. She calls herself Jo and has said, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry." Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. See also: Robert Galbraith Although she writes under the pen name J.K.
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