Before Harry Potter made her a household name, J.K. Rowling contemplated suicide, she tells a student journalist in her adopted hometown of Edinburgh.

Elaborating for the first time on the depression that gripped her when she was a struggling writer and single mom, Rowling says the she “really plummeted” …

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Photo credit: JK Rowling Official Portrait​, 2008