J.K. Rowling
Who is J.K. Rowling
Joanne (Jo) Kathleen Rowling is a a bestselling author from Yate, United Kingdom. She is the author of the popular book series Harry Potter.She was born on 31 of July 1965.Her middle name Kathleen is actually her grandmother's name
Family Life
Joanne's mother is called Anne and her father's name was Peter. She had one younger sister whose name was Dianne. Joanne's parents wanted her to be a boy so when she turned out to be a girl Jo's parents were very disappointed. When she turned out to be a girl her parents treated her like a boy and her sister like a normal girl. Joanne often played witches and wizards with her neighbor. Joanne liked to and loved the book called the little white horse because it had a lot of details. This inspaired her to write her own book seires about a rabbit called rabbit but Joanne said it was quite dull.When she graduated school she married a man called Jorge Arantes and had a daughter named Jessica. Later Joanne went on to marry another guy named Neil Murray and have 2 other kids Mackenzie and David
Her Book Series Harry Potter
Joanne first had the idea for Harry potter when she was on a 4 hour train. When she got home she immediately wrote all her ideas on a piece of paper. When she started writing Harry Potter she first wrote the 19 years later scene just to tell her she will get to book 7 some day. A lot of publishing companies didn't want to publish Joanne's books but Bloomsbury publishing wanted to . After the 1 book was published 12 companies wanted to turn the book into a movie but Joanne chose Warner Brothers which made all of the Harry Potter movies.Her books were really popular and the first book sold 68,000 copies in the first day. She also wrote some other books about the Harry Potter series even though she does not plan on doing anymore Harry Potter books.
Life Accomplishments
J.K. Rowling was very proud of her bestselling book series Harry Potter. She also got many awards for her writing like the national book awards, British book awards,Hugo awards and many more.
at Difference Did J.K Rowling make
Joanne's books encouraged a lot of kids to read more. Half of the readers of her books say that they read more because of how good her books were. Kids naturally don't like reading because they think it's boring but when they read Joanne's books they notice that reading isn't boring. Reading can be very fun if you just try to find what type of books you like to read
Facts
Age- 56
Zodiac sign-Leo
Job-Author
Nationality-British
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