What are the first two names of J.K. Rowling, author of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"? The answer is Joanne Kathleen.
J.K. Rowling was born Joanne Rowling and is best known by her pen name, J.K. Rowling. Her birth name did not originally include a middle name.
When Bloomsbury asked Rowling to use two initials for the Harry Potter books, she selected K in honour of her paternal grandmother, Kathleen. This produced the familiar pen name J.K. Rowling.
The name is often incorrectly written as Joanna Kathleen. The correct spelling of her first name is Joanne, with an “e” at the end. Rowling is the author of the seven-book Harry Potter series, including Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final novel in the original series.