J.K.Rowling is the British author of the wildly successful Harry Potter series. Rowling, once a single mother living on welfare, is now a billionaire whose books have been translated into 60 languages and have sold over 400 million copies worldwide. The books also inspired a series of billion - dollar movies. Her journey from welfare mom to billionaire author happened in less than five years!
Rowling conceived the idea for the Harry Potter series while on a long train ride in 1990. She was so poor that she used to do her writing on stained napkins at local cafe's while her infant daughter napped. Rowling reflects, "That period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that there was going to be a kind of fairy tale resolution.