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10% of J.K. Rowling’s proceeds from the sales of the book will be donated to university-wide financial aid at Harvard University and 90% of J.K. Rowling’s proceeds from the sales will be donated to Lumos. Little, Brown and Company will donate £15,000 to Lumos.
The book will have illustrations by Joel Holland, Publishers Weekly reported Tuesday. Harvard president Drew Gilpin Faust had this to say about the publication, out April 14, 2015.
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“I have heard and read many commencement speeches, none more moving and memorable than J.K. Rowling’s,” said Harvard president Drew Gilpin Faust. "Years after her visit to Harvard, people still talk about it—and still find inspiration in her singular evocation of the idea that living a meaningful life so often means daring to risk failure. What a powerful example she embodies, and what a remarkable gift her speech was, and is, for all of us privileged to hear it then—and to read it now.”
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J.K. Rowling's Harvard speech to be sold as book for Lumos charity, out April 2015 
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