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After a decade long battle with multiple sclerosis, J.K. Rowling's mother, Anne, died.
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Rowlng divorced her husband after two years of marriage marked by frequent quarrling.
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On public assistance in Edinburgh, Scotland, she wrote "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" in a coffeehouse while her daughter napped.
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Nancy Stouffer sued JK Rowling claiming that Rowling had copied her Larry Potter book. However, the lawsuit was dismissed when the court announced that Stouffer had "perpetrated a fraud" on the court.
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Rowling wrote Casual Vacancy for more of an adult audience and was very nervous about releasing the book. It was the first book that she had written which wasen't a childeren's book.
