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She is the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series, which has gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, and sold over 325 million books.

Sunday Times Rich List estimated her fortune at about $1 billion US, making her the first person to become a US-dollar billionaire by writing books.She is ranked as the 136th richest person and the 13th richest woman in Britain. In 2006, Forbes named Rowling the second richest female entertainer in the world and ranked her as 48th on the 100 most powerful celebrities list of 2007.

Rowling has stated that she plans to continue writing after the publication of the final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. She declared in a December 2005 interview that she will most likely not use a new pen name as the press would quickly discover her true identity.[51]

In 2006, Rowling revealed that she had completed a few short stories and another children's book (a "political fairy story") about a monster, aimed at a younger audience than Harry Potter readers.

She is not planning to write an eighth Harry Potter book, but has said she will write an "encyclopedia" of the Harry Potter world consisting of various unpublished material and notes. Any profits from such a book would be given to charity. When asked, in an interview on the 6 July 2007 episode of Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, whether she would ever write an eighth Harry Potter novel Rowling confirmed that she only ever planned to write seven books in the series but also that she could not rule it out entirely. "Um, I think that Harry's story comes to quite a clear end in Book Seven but I've always said that I wouldn't say "never". I can't say I'll never write another book about that world just because I think what do I know, in ten years time I might want to return to it but I think it's unlikely". In a recent interview, she said she "wants to fall in love with another idea...", also stating that "Harry Potter was the experience of a lifetime".