But why did she decide to go with her initials for her pen name? Well the reason is actually pretty crummy, especially as it wasn’t her choice at all. Bear Grylls//Digital Spy JK was told by her ...

JK stands for Joanne Kathleen but her real name isn’t Joanne Rowling JK ROWLING has revealed why she uses her initials instead of her name. The Harry Potter author, 51, was told by publishers to ...

Yep, seriously. While explaining why she writes under her initials, J.K. — whose real name is Joanne — revealed: "My publisher, who published Harry Potter, they said to me, we think this is a ...

If you can call it that. Unsurprisingly, and somewhat depressingly, JK was told by her publishers that they would rather use her initials on her books so as to "disguise" her gender. (Sigh.) ...

THE author of the Harry Potter books has performed her own personal conjuring trick. Joanne Rowling, better known by her initials J K, does not have a middle name, according to her birth certificate.

8) Rowling's ambiguous pen name using the initials 'JK' was a publishing suggestion to make her identity anonymous, for fear that a wizarding story penned by a woman might be unpopular.

Rowling, who adopted the initials JK for her first name Joanne and her grandmother’s name Kathleen, said she was initially encouraged to take on the pen name to disguise her gender. She said: “My ...

JK ROWLING has revealed why she uses her initials instead of her name. The Harry Potter author, 51, was told by publishers to use a pen name in order to disguise her gender in a bid to appeal to a ...

Rowling, who adopted the initials JK for her first name Joanne and her grandmother’s name Kathleen, said she was initially encouraged to take on the pen name to disguise her gender. She said ...