Author's Bio

Looking up my author I realized that the name the book was published under is not the name of that author. It's a pseudonym for an existing author. A well known, well established author. Robert Galbraith is what the author wants us to see as we read the book but under that name is J.K Rowling. Yes, J.K Rowling. The author of the entire Harry Potter Series. When writing the Harry Potter series she kept her name as J.K Rowling because her publishers were unsure of how her books would sell as she is a women writing with a male main character. For a long time people thought Rowling was a man but to people’s surprise, it was a women. J.K stands for Joanne Kathleen- her’s and her mother’s name.

J.K Rowling first conceived the Harry Potter story while she was traveling in a train. The idea hit her and on a napkin she drafted the entire first chapter of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Rowling received a net worth of $15 billion from the entire 7 book series. She became the top author. Each Harry Potter book selling about 50 billion to 65 billion copies worldwide.

J.K. Rowling writes under the name of Robert Galbraith to maintain the distinction from her other writings.

J.K Rowling chose Robert because it is one of her favourite men’s names, because Robert F Kennedy is her hero and because, mercifully, she hadn’t used it for any of the characters in the Potter series or The Casual Vacancy. Galbraith came about for a slightly odd reason. When she was a child, Rowling really wanted to be called ‘Ella Galbraith’. She didn’t even know how she knew that the surname existed, because she couldn’t remember ever meeting anyone with it. Be that as it may, the name had a fascination for Rowling. She considered calling herself L A Galbraith for the Strike series, but for fairly obvious reasons decided that initials were a bad idea. Odder still, there was a well-known economist called J K Galbraith, something she only remembered by the time it was far too late. Rowling was completely paranoid that people might take this as a clue and land at her real identity, but thankfully nobody was looking that deeply at the author’s name.