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Further information: Religious debates over the Harry Potter series
By 1998, Rowling was portrayed in the media as a "penniless divorcee hitting the jackpot".According to her biographer Sean Smith, the publicity became effective marketing for Harry Potter.But her journey from living on benefits to wealth brought, along with fame, concerns from parents about the books' portrayals of the occult and gender. Ultimately, Smith says that these concerns served to "increase her public profile rather than damage it".Rowling identifies as a Christian. Although she grew up next door to her church,accounts of the family's church attendance differ.She began attending a Church of Scotland congregation, where Jessica was christened, around the time she was writing Harry Potter.In a 2012 interview, she said she belonged to the Scottish Episcopal Church.Rowling has stated that she believes in God, but has experienced doubt and that her struggles with faith play a part in her books. She does not believe in magic or witchcraft.
Rowling married Neil Murray, a doctor, in 2001.The couple intended to marry in July of that year in the Galapagos; after a leak to the press, they delayed their wedding plans and changed their vacation destination to Mauritius. After the UK Press Complaints Commission ruled that a magazine had breached Jessica's privacy when the eight-year-old was included in a photograph of the family vacationing together,Murray and Rowling sought a more private and quiet place to live and work.Rowling purchased Killiechassie House and its estate in Perthshire, Scotland.On 26 December 2001, the couple had a small, private wedding there, officiated by an Episcopalian priest who travelled from Edinburgh. Their son, David Gordon Rowling Murray, was born in 2003,and their daughter Mackenzie Jean Rowling Murray was born in 2005.
In 2004, Forbes named Rowling "the first billion-dollar author". Rowling denied that she was a billionaire in a 2005 interview. By 2012, Forbes concluded she was no longer a billionaire due to her charitable donations and high UK taxes.She was named the world's highest paid author by Forbes in 2008, 2017 and 2019.Her UK sales total in excess of £238 million, making her the best-selling living author in Britain.The 2021 Sunday Times Rich List estimated Rowling's fortune at £820 million, ranking her as the 196th-richest person in the UK. As of 2020, she also owns a £4.5 million Georgian house in Kensington and a £2 million home in Edinburgh.Adult fiction and Robert GalbraithIn mid-2011, Rowling left Christopher Little Literary Agency and followed her agent Neil Blair to the Blair Partnership. He represented her for the publication of The Casual Vacancy, released in September 2012 by Little, Brown and Company. It was Rowling's first since Harry Potter ended, and her first book for adults. A contemporary take on 19th-century British fiction about village life, Casual Vacancy was promoted as a black comedy,while the critic Ian Parker described it as a "rural comedy of manners".It was adapted to a miniseries co-created by the BBC and HBO.Little, Brown published The Cuckoo's Calling, the purported début novel of Robert Galbraith, in April 2013.It initially sold 1,500 copies in hardback.After an investigation prompted by discussion on Twitter, the journalist Richard Brooks contacted Rowling's agent, who confirmed Galbraith was Rowling's pseudonym. Rowling later said she enjoyed working as Robert Galbraith, a name she took from Robert F. Kennedy, a personal hero, and Ella Galbraith, a name she invented for herself in childhood. After the revelation, sales of Cuckoo's Calling escalated.
Continuing the Cormoran Strike series of detective novels, The Silkworm was released in 2014 Career of Evil in 2015; Lethal White in 2018 and Troubled Blood in 2020. Cormoran Strike, a disabled veteran of the War in Afghanistan with a prosthetic leg, is unfriendly and sometimes oblivious, but acts with a deep moral sensibility.In 2017, BBC One aired the first episode of the four-season series Strike, a television adaptation of the Cormoran Strike novels starring Tom Burke.The series was picked up by HBO for distribution in the United States and Canada.
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Pottermore, a website with information and stories about characters in the Harry Potter universe, launched in 2011. On its release, Pottermore was rooted in the Harry Potter novels, tracing the series's story in an interactive format. Its brand was associated with Rowling: she introduced the site in a video as a shared media environment to which she and Harry Potter fans would contribute. The site was substantially revised in 2015 to resemble an encyclopedia of Harry Potter. Beyond encyclopedia content, the post-2015 Pottermore included promotions for Warner Bros. films including Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.Harry Potter and the Cursed Child premiered in the West End in May 2016 and on Broadway in July.At its London premiere, Rowling confirmed that she would not write any more Harry Potter books.Rowling collaborated with writer Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany.Cursed Child's script was published as a book in July 2016. The play follows the friendship between Harry's son Albus and Scorpius Malfoy, Draco Malfoy's son, at Hogwarts.
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