What was J.K. Rowling’s 2008 Harvard Commencement speech later published as?

J.K. Rowling’s 2008 Harvard Commencement speech was later published as Very Good Lives.

Rowling delivered the speech at Harvard University on 5 June 2008. She discussed the benefits of failure and the importance of imagination, drawing on experiences from her life before the success of Harry Potter. The speech was later issued as a short illustrated book in 2015.

Very Good Lives was published with proceeds benefiting Lumos and Harvard University. Its title comes from the speech’s closing emphasis on choosing meaningful lives rather than merely pursuing conventional success.

The book is sometimes confused with “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination,” which is the speech’s subtitle and one of its main themes. That phrase describes the address, while Very Good Lives is the title of the later book edition.