User talk:AleatoryPonderings/Rowling lede
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[edit]Kinda random ideas for now.
- We have the pronunciation of her name in Smith; no need to introduce a new source.
- In the first para, work in screenwriter and producer on films, and other Harry Potter-related books for charity. That is, attempt to better cover other stuff we have listed in Bibliography and Filmography, albeit briefly.
- In the second para, what high school she attended is relatively important, but the defining event in her life and thematic in her books (death) is her mother and her mother's death.
- The location of her re-marriage is relatively insignificant.
- I don't believe her short first marriage warrants attention in the lead; there is so much more to be said about her, without dragging him in to the most read part of the article. In fact, what is there now is not bad:
It covers the crucial early life events: death of her mother, divorce, single parenthood, relative poverty ...The seven-year period that followed saw the death of her mother, birth of her first child, divorce from her first husband, and relative poverty until the first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was published in 1997. There were six sequels, of which the last was released in 2007. Since then, Rowling has written several books for adult readers: The Casual Vacancy (2012) and – under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith – the crime fiction Cormoran Strike series. In 2020, her "political fairytale" for children, The Ickabog, was released in instalments in an online version. Rowling has progressed from living on benefits to being named the world's first billionaire author by Forbes,[4]
- I have never found a good or current source for the 500 million; all we have is as of 2018 according to Bloomsbury.
- Volant Charitable Trust is on the same footing as Lumos.
- Awards and honours aren't covered.
- Perhaps "medical causes" rather than "medical problems", but I'm not sure this is true:
Rowling's giving centres on medical problems ...
... medical is one of her causes, but her main thrust is as explained in the Philanthropy section re Volant: "alleviate social deprivation, with a particular emphasis on supporting women, children and young people at risk" ... everything relates back to her time as a single mother on welfare, and the death of her own mother.