Edinburgh-based author JK Rowling is best known for her work ... The daughter of an aircraft engineer, Rowling was born in Yate, South Gloucestershire, in 1965. She moved to Scotland in 1995 ...

JK Rowling has said in the past that Dumbledore is gay but the film's director David Yates has upset some fans by saying that he will not be "explicitly" gay in the new film.

Director David Yates told GSNews that J.K. Rowling has already written the script for the second movie, out of the planned trilogy. "We've done the first one, she's written the second one ...