J.K. Rowling

Joanne Rowling, who publishes as J. K. Rowling, is a British author best known for Harry Potter, a seven-volume series about a young wizard, the first novel of which appeared in 1997. She also writes the Cormoran Strike crime series under the alias Robert Galbraith, and her shelf includes the Fantastic Beasts screenplays, the adult novel The Casual Vacancy, and the Harry Potter stage play The Cursed Child. Much of her wealth has gone to charity, through the Volant Charitable Trust and the charity Lumos.