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[Harry Potter author: 'I was humiliated by poverty']
JK Rowling says she found it humiliating being poor. She says her image as a struggling writer before her Harry Potter success has been wrongly romanticised. Rowling is backing a new collection of short stories aimed at raising money for single parent families.
"Some articles written about me have come close to romanticising the time I spent on Income Support," she told the Daily Mirror. "The well-worn cliche of the writer starving in the garret is so much more picturesque than the bitter reality of living in poverty with a child."Story filed: 07:59 Monday 20th May 2002[RELATED STORIES:] Harry Potter author speaks out against lone-parent poverty 14:29 Monday 19th November 2001