She was newly divorced, living on welfare, caring for a small child, and having to live with her sister and brother-in-law because she couldn’t afford a place of her own. She wrote a book in longhand, retyped it on a manual typewriter, and then snuck into a computer lounge of a local college and retyped it on a computer, terrified that she would be discovered as a nonstudent. After a year of rejections from publishers, Bloomsbury bought Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Philosopher was changed to Sorcerer for the US market) and the rest is history. Now, after selling over 600 million books and having several successful movies based on those books, J.K. Rowling is one of the richest women in the world.

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