Rowling Plans First U.S. Tour Since 1999

-- Publishers Weekly, 6/14/2007 7:53:00 AM

The last time J.K. Rowling did a U.S. book tour, many of the people who are now her biggest fans either weren't born or hadn't learned to read yet.
 
But to promote Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the  notoriously publicity-shy author will be coming to the U.S. in October for the J.K. Rowling Open Book Tour. The brief tour, her first in eight years, will include four events: two in New York, one in New Orleans and another in Los Angeles. Three of the events will be expressly for students while the final one, slated for Carnegie Hall in New York, will be open to 1,000 fans who win tickets through a sweepstakes sponsored by Scholastic.

In September, the publisher will select the schools that will get to send some of their students to the events. Rowling is slated to be at the Kodak Theater in L.A. on October 15; at the auditorium of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans on October 18; and at Carnegie Hall on October 19. The Scholastic sweepstakes event will follow Rowling’s student talk that evening, at 7 p.m.