Jo Rowling's Rise to Success

Joanne Rowling is a 34-year-old single mother, and currently the world's most successful author. She had few friends and fewer prospects and ended up on welfare to make sure she had enough money for her four-month-old baby. As its success grew, Rowling's own life started to become part of the story. Her agent says that Rowling, barely five years away from welfare, could end up making one hundred million dollars.