#history British writer Joanne Kathleen Rowling became famous with her series of novels dedicated to the adventures of Harry Potter, one of the greatest literary phenomena in history. The adventures of an orphan boy with magical powers capable of escaping at will to a fantasy world managed to break all sales records in the genre's literature, although many critics were reluctant to pigeonhole Rowling's books as children's stories, as happened with Mark Twain's famous Tom Sawyer.

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