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>and was responsible for J. K. Rowling's global success.
Well, she was discovered by Barry Cunningham, a British editor for a British publishing house, Bloomsbury. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G8xoWbScB4&ab_channel=BBCNews

And Arthur Levine of Scholastic was important for subsequently "discovering" Rowling for purposes of bringing her work to America. But what is not clear to me is the relation between Dave Wolverton - who is also alleged to have discovered Rowling for Scholastic - and Levine.
Does anyone know the details of this story? Who had priority of discovery for Scholastic's purposes? (Funded by the Vatican, it is a little-known fact that all Scholastic books have an Imprimatur, albeit inconspicuously placed in a virtually microscopic font.)

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Dave Wolverton (pen name: Dave Farland) wrote >100 hours a week in his early career, penning countless novels, including a nine-volume fantasy epic…