Rowling as the first person to win a billion dollars for writing books. However, that changed when she started publishing her books. She even had to live from State benefits because she held no job prior to publishing her first Harry Potter series book. Rowling was young, she was a rather poor woman. Two years later she put a restraining order on his spouse. As soon as she reached her apartment, she started writing.īefore publishing her first Harry Potter book, she moved to Oporto, Portugal to work as an English teacher in an Academy.

She tells she had never been so excited to write than when she had the aforementioned idea. She had the idea of writing Harry Potter when she was traveling in a train from Manchester to London. Later on, she would move to London to work as a researcher and a bilingual secretary for International Amnesty. Once she finished high school, she entered the University of Exeter to study French and Classic Philosophy. She said she loved “The Smiths” and “The Clash.” Rowling had admired her and consequently read all of her books. It turned out that on that time her grandmother gave her a copy of a biography of Jessica Mitford, a communist activist. Rowling moved toTutshill, Glurcestershire. Her first writing was about a bunny who had measles and was visited by her other animal friends. She wrote fiction stories and told them to her little sister. She has been a writer since she was a little girl. When she was young, she attended St Michael´s primary school. Just before she turned 2 years old, her sister Dianne was born.

Her progenitors are Peter James Rowling and Anne Rowling. Rowling was born on July 31 of 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England. Joanne didn´t have a second name, so she borrowed the letter K from Kathleen, her dad´s mother name. Rowling is because her publishing company feared that teenagers wouldn´t buy books written by a woman, so they suggested she used her two initial name letters. Rowling is the author of the Harry Potter series, one of the most successful book series ever in the history of humankind.

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