Harry Potter her publishers to adopt a more gender-neutral pen name in order to appeal to the male members of this age group, fearing that they would not be interested in reading a novel they knew to be written by a woman. She elected to use J. K. Rowling (Joanne Kathleen Rowling), using her grandmother's name as her second name because she has no middle name. "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" was published by Bloomsbury, the publisher of all "Harry Potter" books in the United Kingdom, on 26 June 1997. It was released in the United States on 1 September 1998
Harry Potter Fan Zone of Warner Bros., it has covered the US and UK premieres of the last six "Harry Potter" films and has twice visited Leavesden Studios to report on "Harry Potter" filming. The website has also been selected for preservation in the Pandora Archive by the National Library of Australia. The site has had the opportunity to interview many of the cast and crew involved in the "Harry Potter" film franchise, including Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Tom Felton, Evanna Lynch, Andy Linden, James Walters, Jamie Waylett and crew members David Yates, David Heyman and David Barron. Additionally, J. K. Rowling answered questions