JKR wins 2007 WIRED Rave Award

WIRED magazine's upcoming May issue will reveal the 2007 winners for their annual Rave Awards, which recognize people in a wide range of categories for "changing your mind." Of them this year is Jo Rowling, and thanks to Jessica we have a scan that includes a new photo of Jo here in our gallery.

The write-up is hard to read off the scan, so you can follow the link below for what it says.

"In 1990, before the rise of Second Life and World of Warcraft, before the triumph of MMORPGs, a young woman named Joanne Rowling was stuck on a delayed four-hour train ride to King's Cross station in London. She began to conjure up an outcast boy heading to a sorcery school called Hogwarts. Seven years and countless drafts later, the first Harry Potter novel plunged readers into a parallel universe more compelling than any online world imaginable. Rowling was paid a $4,000 advance. Today she is the first person to become a billionaire by writing books. And when "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the seventh and final volume in the series, apparates on July 21, it will mark the conclusion of an incredible run: more than 325 million books sold in 200 countries, not to mention the $3 billion or so earned by the first four movies and billions more from games, action figures, and product tie-ins. Rowling is the reigning master of what you might call MMFWs-massively multireader fictional worlds-inspiring a generation of screen-fed kids to devour old-fashioned books on paper." -Liesl Schillinger

Posted by Andrew on Apr 21st | 47 Comments