#18: J. K Rowling
There isn’t anyone in the entire world who doesn’t know who J.K. Rowling is… The wordsmith and mastermind behind the wizarding world possesses a magical imagination. For more than 20 years, Rowling has enchanted millions of readers with her captivating tales.
However, it wasn’t always butter beer and magic for this author… As a single mother on welfare, Rowling approached several publishers before finally getting the novel, ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’ published in 1997. She was 32 when the book was published and has since gone on to change the world as we know it.