J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling says she is returning an award from a human rights group linked to the Kennedy family after the president of the organization criticized her comments about transgender issues.

J.K. Rowling is once again speaking out about the transgender community.

“Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling is facing backlash after being accused of making transphobic comments on social media.

Author J.K. Rowling has a treat for all her fans… a new book. And better yet…it’s free.

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J.K. Rowling is facing widespread criticism from the transgender community and other activists after tweeting support for a researcher who lost her job for stating that people cannot change their biological sex.

Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling can add another magic moment to her list of achievements — she has been made a royal Companion of Honor.

Two decades after J.K. Rowling published “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone,” fans are flocking to King’s Cross station to celebrate the boy wizard and his adventures.

Wizarding legend Harry Potter’s tale has turned 20.
Author J.K. Rowling’s first novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, was published in Britain on June 26, 1997.

Jude Law will play young Albus Dumbledore in the next “Fantastic Beasts” installment. Warner Bros. announced the casting Tuesday. The iconic wizard was played by two actors in the “Harry Potter” films, beginning with Richard Harris. After his death in 2002, Michael Gambon inherited the role. J.K. Rowling, who has said Dumbledore is gay, has previously teased that the five-part...

The wizarding world held a reunion of sorts Wednesday as some veterans of the blockbuster “Harry Potter” film series gathered at the site just north of London where the films were made. There was Jason Isaacs, who played Lucius Malfoy, Evanna Lynch, aka Luna Lovegood in the films, and Aragog — the machine which made a very convincing, somewhat sinister...

If you are a Harry Potter fan, you will love “Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them.”

J.K. Rowling has so much more to say about Hogwarts.The “Harry Potter” author has completed a series of short digital works, Pottermore Presents, centered on the school where Potter and friends honed their magic.

J.K. Rowling’s latest tale of wizardry is set atop the mountains in Massachusetts. The second installment in a collection called “Magic in North America” describes a secret wizarding school located at the peak of Mount Greylock in the Berkshires. The story was published Tuesday on Rowling’s Pottermore site.

Farewell, feathered cast members of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.” Producers say they have removed live owls from the play after one escaped into the auditorium during a preview.

Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha and LeeAnne Walters will be awarded the Freedom of Expression Courage Award on May 16 in New York, PEN America announced Friday. “The willingness of individuals to stand up, speak out and refuse to be denied is an essential catalyst for the vindication of rights and the realization of reform,” said Suzanne Nossel, executive director of PEN...