Genius

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Eggplant wrote:

With the exception of Michelangelo none of these people were
considered a genius in their day, Dickens was enormously popular but
thought of as a hack by the literary elite and Shakespeare wrote his
sonnets to try to gain some respectability, his plays made him a ton
of money but it was like a man today who had written a very successful
sitcom.

That's far too glib.  Dickens was never regarded as a hack in his own 
day.  Ben Jonson described Shakespeare as being "not for an age but for 
all time"   I'd hesitate to say that about JKR, much as I admire her.
I'd agree with an earlier poster who described her as a phenomenon 
though.