An Incomplete List of Topics J.K. Rowling and President Obama May Have Discussed

J.K. Rowling and President Barack Obama sat down for dinner, and, unlike her usual go-to, Rowling has stayed mercifully mum about the dinner.

J.K. Rowling and President Barack Obama sat down for dinner, and, unlike her usual go-to, Rowling has stayed mercifully mum about the dinner.

J.K. Rowling announced Friday that “not a prequel” to her quadrillion-selling Harry Potter septology is headed for London’s Palace Theatre in summer 2016. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will cover the “untold part” of Harry’s story, including the lives of his dead mom and dad. (Again, “not a prequel.”)
When last we left Rupert Murdoch, he was tweeting wrong, bigoted things about Egyptians. Now, he is tweeting wrong, bigoted things about Muslims! ("Moslems," actually.) The world is just so full of things to be wrong about. Thankfully though, J.K. Rowling has stepped in to restore balance.
J.K. Rowling sent a letter "from Dumbledore" to 15-year-old Cassidy Stay, the sole survivor of last month's tragic Texas shooting. Stay's entire family was murdered in the attack—she survived by playing dead and kept more people from being shot by calling 911. Rowling likely reached out to her because she quoted Harry…
Bajillion-selling author J.K. Rowling has been hard at work in her Harry Potter universe this year, scripting the upcoming Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, but her best-known characters have remained on the shelf since the series concluded. Until last night, that is, when Rowling returned to Harry, Ron, and…
Warner Brothers will adapt J.K. Rowling's wonderful extended Harry Potter-universe Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them into a trilogy of "megamovies," according to the New York Times. What is a megamovie? Who cares! "The stories, neither prequels or sequels, will start in New York about seven decades before the…
Merlin's beard! J.K. Rowling has admitted regret over forcing her character Hermione Granger to wed troubled ginger Ron Weasley in the little-known Harry Potter books.
It sounds like a Mel Brooks joke, but it's true — a British law firm has admitted that it was responsible for outing JK Rowling as the secret author of a detective novel, after a partner of the firm told his wife's best friend.
JK Rowling was outed this morning as Robert Galbraith, the pseudonym credited as the author of The Cuckoo's Calling, a well-regarded mystery novel released in April.
Though she just finished her first adult novel after writing exclusively about Harry Potter for over a decade, J.K. Rowling says she's not done writing for younger readers, and could even return to the world of Hogwarts if inspiration should strike.
Have you ever thought it might be cool to hang out with J. K. Rowling? Because the Harry Potter books shaped your childhood, or your children's childhood, or your parents' childhood (future babies), or because you love hanging out with millionaires, or because you have a fetish for older, soft-spoken white women with…
Little, Brown and Company this morning unveiled the cover of J.K. Rowling's first post-Harry-Potter novel, The Casual Vacancy.
Little, Brown this morning revealed additional details about J.K. Rowling's upcoming post-Harry-Potter "novel for adults," which is set to be released Thursday, September 27th, in hardback, ebook, unabridged audio download, and CD formats.
Good news for people who love the Harry Potter series but are maybe too old to be seen reading any of the books in public: J.K. Rowling is writing a novel for adults.
The beta version of Pottermore, the much-discussed multimedia-moneymaker-somethingorother announced by J.K. Rowling in July, has gone live for a few thousand obsessive fans. How obsessive? To qualify as beta testers of Pottermore, they had to find seven different clues on seven different websites on seven different…