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Portrait of J.K. Rowling Photo: Karwai Tang/WireImage (2018)

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Rowling, J.K.

The British writer, J.K. Rowling, was born as Joanne Rowling in Yate in Gloucestershire, England. As an adult, she added her paternal grandmother’s first name, Kathleen, as her middle name. When she was four years old, the family moved to the village of Winterbourne in the same county, since the family had grown with the arrival of Joanne’s sister who was two years younger. Four years later, it mo...

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Archy (Archibald) McNally

Gender: Male

He was thrown out of Yale Law School, but daddy Prescott still employed him in his respectable law firm, where the son got to carry out ‘discreet investigations’. He meets with amazing successes, mainly on account of his somewhat unorthodox working methods, according to author Lawrence Sanders. ‘Archy’ McNally is almost 40 years old, talks like a teenager and loves women, clothes and hats.

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