J.K. Rowling

J. K. Rowling is the British author of the best-selling Harry Potter series, inspiration for one of the internet's biggest fandoms and the biggest book fandom by far.As of March 9, 2023, FanFiction.Net has 844K Harry Potter stories, compared to the runners-up Twilight (222K) and Percy Jackson and the Olympians (80K). 
Rowling has written other books, some of them nonfiction, and most recently under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith published the series Cormoran Strikes about a detective and his assistant.
==Books==
====Harry Potter series====
*Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (published 26 June 1997)
*Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2 July 1998)
*Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (8 July 1999)
*Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (8 July 2000)
*Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (21 June 2003)
*Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (16 July 2005)
*Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (21 July 2007)
:and three supplements:
*Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2001)
*Quidditch Through the Ages (2001)
*The Tales of Beedle the Bard (2008).
====Cormoran Strike series====
*The Cuckoo’s Calling (2013)
*The Silkworm (2014)
*Career of Evil (2015)
*Lethal White (2018)
*Troubled Blood (2020)
*The Ink Black Heart (2022)
*The Running Grave (2023)
==Relationship with Fandom==
J. K. Rowling is generally supportive of fan activities.
From an interview in the fall of 2000 with Rowling by the BBC: 
From a October 20th, 2000 chat: 
In 2004, Rowling gave her blessing for fanfiction, saying via a spokesperson, that she was "flattered people wanted to write their own stories" and "her concern would be to make sure that it remains a non-commercial activity to ensure fans are not exploited and it is not being published in the strict sense of traditional print publishing." 
She gave awards for her favorite fansites, including the HP Alliance, Harry Potter Fan Zone (2007), PotterishPotterish website http://potterish.com (2006), The Leaky Cauldron (2005), HPANA, MuggleNet, The Harry Potter Lexicon, Immeritus (2004)
In 2007 she and Warner Brothers, who hold the film rights, successfully blocked RDR Books from publishing a book version of The Harry Potter Lexicon by Steve Vander Ark. See Harry Potter Lexicon Trial.
===Post-Harry Potter===
In the years since the release of the last movie adaptation of Harry Potter, fandom's relationship to Rowling has been characterised by a number of controversies. 
In the aftermath of Rowling declaring Albus Dumbledore gay, there was wank for many years about the appropriateness of only mentioning his sexuality afterwards and not including it in the books themselves. The same controversy flared up again with the release of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, which includes references to the Albus Dumbledore/Gellert Grindelwald relationship but still fails to make the sexuality of either character canon. A similar controversy arose over the relationship between Albus Severus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child which many felt was queerbaited.
Another controversy was sparked by Rowling's writing about North America, made available on Pottermore in 2016. Many fans felt that Rowling had not only displayed a lack of understanding of North America in her worldbuilding, several factors were insensitive towards Native Americans.Reddit discussion of use of Native American beliefs in JKR's worldbuilding. Reddit, March 9, 2016. See the criticism section of Ilvermorny article for more information. With the release of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, criticism only grew, as many took the lack of racial diversity in the movie as further proof of racism on Rowling's part.
===Transphobia===
In 2018, Rowling liked a couple of transphobic tweets, causing some criticism and wariness of her within the trans community.. Screenshots taken from Queenie's tweet. Images one, two and three The issue didn't blow up till late 2019, when Rowling published a tweet in support of Maya Forstater, a trans-exclusionary radical feminist who lost a court case about transphobic remarks as protected speech. In response to Rowling's transphobia, many fans produced fanworks with Harry Potter characters portrayed as trans and the HPTransFest, dedicated to trans Harry Potter fanworks, was started in response.hptransfest.tumblr.com, HPTransFest on Tumblr
In 2020, Rowling accidentally added a transphobic statement to a reply to a 9-year-old girl on Twitter; the tweet was quickly erased but not before it was caught in screencaps.J.K. Rowling deleted a tweet that included transphobic commentary with a child’s fanart. 
In reaction to Rowling's increasingly obvious racism and transphobia, some fans have taken to claiming the books were written by Hatsune Miku, which is a common claim for Minecraft fans who disapprove of its creator's transphobic actions. In Brazil, many fans claim that either Britney Spears or Hermione Granger is the real author. However, other fans have pointed out that racist and transphobic themes are entrenched in the Potterverse and Cormoran Strike series, and not giving credit to the creator won't fix the content.
==Robert Galbraith==
After Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling chose crime fiction for her next books, a genre she has always loved as a reader, writing then under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. The Cormoran Strike series has since been adapted by the BBC into a TV show.
Rowling’s original intention for writing as Robert Galbraith was for the books to be judged on their own merit, and to establish Galbraith as a well-regarded name in crime in its own right.
 
===Controversy===
The revelation that Rowling wrote with the nom de plume Robert Galbraith has led many critics and fans to focus more heavily on the series. Which led to the discovery of a text described by some as problematic, full of prejudices, including misogyny, racism with a fetishistic description of black characters and, more recently, transphobia and fatphobia.
After the discovery of Rowling's transphobia, she is often labeled a TERF. Some fans on Twitter started to reread the book in order to catalog any and all content that could prove that the author not only demonstrated these prejudices online, but also in her text. 
It was then discovered that Robert Galbraith was also the name of a psychiatrist who practiced conversion therapy on gay men. In response to these, Rowling quickly made statements about the origin of the name in order to refute the criticism, below is an excerpt from the essay in Vice:
People have speculated that JKR herself helped leak the fact that Galbraith was her pseudonym as a way to speed up sales of books that were not so well received, either by critics or the public. They saw this move as JKR shooting herself in the foot, because it only gave more ammunition to those who were already critical of Rowling due to her worrying attitudes towards the trans community.
==Meta/Further Reading==
* Icon maybe appropriate: fanfic and creator's wishes; archive page 1, archive page 2, archive page 3, archive page 4, survey and four pages of comments regarding opinion about pro-canon creators' and fanworks opinions about: Robin Hobb, Anne Rice, J. Michael Straczynski , Marion Zimmer Bradley, Anne McCaffrey, J.K. Rowling, and others (2007)
==Resources==
*Official Site
*JKR on Wikipedia
*Harry Potter on Fanlore
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Harry Potter 
Category:Science Fiction Authors