Joanne "Jo" Rowling, OBE[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/793844.stm Caine heads birthday honours list]. BBC News. 17 June 2000. Retrieved 25 October 2000. (born 31 July 1965; married name Murray),[http://content.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=3578 JK Rowling Biography]. Scholastic.com. Retrieved 20 October 2007. better known under the pen name J. K. Rowling (, ),[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1531779/BBCs-secret-guide-to-avoid-tripping-over-your-tongue.html Daily Telegraph, BBC's secret guide to avoid tripping over your tongue, 19 October 2006] is a British author best known as the creator of the Harry Potter fantasy series, the idea for which was conceived whilst on a train trip from Manchester to London in 1990. The Potter books hav...