![]() ![]() Meanwhile, like Conan Doyle, who followed Holmes and Watson with his Professor Challenger novels, Rowling hankered for another series. The reviews were mixed, but she still sold more than a million copies worldwide, while clearly relishing this second act in her literary career. In 2011, after a troubled hiatus, Rowling fired her agent and the following year published The Casual Vacancy, a novel for adults, under her own name. In the annals of British literature, Rowling's Harry Potter series is an unprecedented achievement. ![]() Just as remarkable, in 2007, Rowling completed her seven-volume Harry Potter sequence, with The Deathly Hallows, nailing down almost every last detail of a mind-bendingly intricate plot, and bringing an elephantine narrative to a satisfying and possibly open-ended conclusion. ![]() In 2004, Forbes magazine named Rowling the first person to become a billion-dollar author. Subsequent Harry Potter adventures smashed all known sales records. Not since Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories had a writer of Scots ancestry – indeed, any writer – achieved such an astounding audience. ![]()
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