Most Influential Woman in Britain

Nowadays everyone knows who is JK Rowling. She is the most famous British novelist of the 21st century, screenwriter and film producer who brought home the bacon and became one of the richest women in Britain.

But not everyone knows that she was very poor a certain period of her life,lived on state benefits and was in a stew. Furthermore, Joan believed that she was a dead meat and nutty as a fruitcake. She lost her mother, experienced a divorce and felt a fine kettle of fish.

She had no money, and the first book, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", she wrote on an old typewriter. You'll never believe it, but when this book was sent to the 12 publishers, none of them did not agree to publish it. They did not understand that this book was an offer on the table.

Just a few years, the fourth book "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" broke sales records in the UK and in the US.372,775 copies of the book were sold like hotcakes in its first day in the UK.

And nowadays Harry Potter is a global brand worth an estimated US$15 billion and the world in Joan`s oyster. Despite this, JK Rowling didn`t ham up. She has supported charities including Comic Relief, One Parent Families, Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain and Lumos (formerly the Children's High Level Group and shows the milk of human kindness every day.