Today JK Rowling is one of the richest women in the world, and possibly the richest author. But life was not always all rosy for the celebrated writer of the famous Harry Potter series.
Prior to the success of her fictional parallel universe, Rowling was a struggling single mother. In earlier interviews she has admitted to have gone through depression but recently, she revealed that burdened with poverty, she was on the brink of suicide and went through nine months of cognitive behavioural therapy for the same! She claims that the ‘soul sucking dementors’ that feature in the Harry Potter books are creatures that took form in her mind due to her depression. "I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that", she said.
Fortune magazine ranks Rowling, who has written seven Harry Potter novels, as one of the richest women in Britain, with an estimated wealth of 504 million pounds (US$1 billion; euro647 million)!
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