"Harry Potter" Author JK Rowling, AP Photo
Author J.K. Rowling may have made plenty of money from penning the Harry Potter series of books, but she has given away one tenth of her earnings since she became famous, according to a report in the UK’s Daily Mail. However, she has just made her largest single donation of approximately $15.4 million (10 million UK pounds) to a new research center for multiple sclerosis.
Multiple sclerosis is a disease close to J.K. Rowling’s heart; her mother, Anne Rowling, (whom the new center will be named after) died at the age of 45 from multiple sclerosis – before J.K. Rowling became famous for the Harry Potter books. J.K. Rowling, in her official biography, is quoted as saying:
“I think most people believe deep down that their mothers are indestructible; it was a terrible shock to hear that she had an incurable disease.”
Anne Rowling died at the age of 45; the new MS research center is located at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and will be named The Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic.
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