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This week The New Statesman published a hit piece on JK Rowling. The headline was: JK Rowling: Britain’s Nastiest Novelist.

Her crime? Writing novels under the pen name of Robert Galbraith, in which bad people do bad things.

“When she assumed the Galbraith pseudonym a decade ago, Rowling was putting on a mask. The mask of anonymity, the mask of detachment, the mask of adulthood. But on another level, she was taking off a mask – and showing herself in full, nasty glory for the first time,” wrote Nick Hilton. He also described her as ‘brittle, insecure, cruel.’

The woman who fell off the Forbes rich list because she gave her mo…