【2015】<p>Winfrey: So, this is the first time we’ve met.</p><p>Rowling: Yes, it is .</p><p>Winfrey: And my producers tell me that your real name is J.O.  <u>  7   </u></p><p>Rowling: (laughing) Yeah.</p><p>Winfrey: J.K is …</p><p>Rowling:  <u> 8    </u>When the first book came out, they thought ‘this is a book that will appeal to boys ’, but they didn’t want the boys to know a woman had written it. So they said to me ‘could we use your initials ’and I said ‘fine’. I only have one initial. I don’t have a middle name. So I took my favorite grandmother’s name, Kathleen.</p><p>Winfrey:<u>    9   </u></p><p>Rowling: Yeah, but not for too long, because I started getting my picture in the press and no one could pretend I was a man anymore.</p><p>Winfrey:  <u>  10   </u></p><p>Rowling: NO —it hasn’t held me back, has it?</p>