Touted worldwide as one amongst the most influential women, the celebrated author Joanne Kathleen Rowling is also a screenwriter and producer. She successfully wrote the Harry Potter fantasy series, which has over the time become a classic work of literature. The books have also been adapted into a blockbuster film franchise.
On a delayed train from Manchester to London, in 1990, J.K. Rowling was struck by an idea which was soon going to change the course of fictional writing. She did not have a pen at that time so she kept thinking about it and immediately sat down to write as soon as she reached her house. Then after seven years, the first book of the fantasy series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone was published. The response generated by the first one led her to write six more- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and the seventh and so far last Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which got published in July 2007. These books have also been successfully adapted into films of the same names.
For her phenomenal contribution to the global art and literature, J.K.Rowling was honored with an OBE, which is the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.