Facts about J. K. Rowling

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dylan that's cool! 2/13/2012
harry warner JKR is an example and inspiration to all " Writers " - what a girl - well done ! " 1/8/2012
Brianna Bradley J.K Rowling is the best ever 1/6/2012
lindsey umm rather shorter 12/20/2011
elizabeth s. Au J.K.Rowling you are a wonder woman personified, I have neither read your books nor seen your movies, but after reading your real life story , I have come to admire you greatly. With best wishes for the future. 12/15/2011
m88888888jr i love harry potter 11/25/2011
m88888 I love harry potter its sick 11/25/2011
Mandi what is a fun fact about you 10/26/2011
voldemort nice :) 10/17/2011
lucy cool ilove her 9/27/2011
marian ok 9/20/2011
Mylord What I posted on this web site is true, but my posted article gets cut-off. That's not productive, so you miss out on the truth to what really is the story about "The_True_Origins_Of_Harry_Potter", by Greg Simcock. Doesn't anyone really care about the truth of 'how the story was formed?', 'how the characters were named?' and 'the real origins of the story!' Jo Rowling did not conceive the original Harry Potter concept at all. Go figure that one for yourself. It's simple really: J.K. Rawling created the stories of Harry Potter, Not J.K. Rowling!
Author, Mylord		 8/2/2011
Hoo Nose J.K. Rowling is a myth propped up by lies and protected by legal firm Schillings. 7/25/2011
;macy and kiara i love harrry potter i want to see more 7/22/2011
katie this is GREAT 6/22/2011
bob marley more 5/27/2011
lizzy I thank your harry potter books are amasing and i love your hand writing 4/27/2011
BRIANNA IM IN LOVE WITH YOUR HARRY POTTER BOOKS IM DOING A BIO FAIR ON YOU 4/20/2011
gillian omg! i new some1 named logan dennis in my 4th grade class even tho that wuz like 3 years ago. i no this has nothing 2 do with harry potter 4/19/2011
logan dennis idk my thoughts on harry potter.still kinda confused 4/19/2011
sydney BOTH! but i think we should turn it into a justin bieber page(: haha(: justin bieber is the bestest!(:(: 4/19/2011
kirsten hughes is this a justtin bieber page or a harry potter page? 4/19/2011
ciara i luv justin bieber and harry potter(: and no im not just saying that b/cuz brianna is my bff(: 4/19/2011
brianna i hav no clu how u get such great ideas 4 books but keep writing(: and yes u can luv harry potter and justin bieber at the same time b/cuz i no i do(: 4/19/2011
selena g. i love harry potter and needless to say she is a wonderful writer. i am mezmorised by her work. especially the seventh book(: (by the way,im not selena gomez) 4/19/2011
anonymous i love harry potter and j.k rowling soo much. i was so sad when the last book harry potter and the deathly hallows came out even though it was the best book i have ever read. i am doing an extra credit report on harry potter and wanted to find out some more information on j.k rowling. this was the perfect amount of information.thanks alot! (: 4/19/2011
Abby JK Rowling is SO COOL!
Harry Potter is my favourite book EVER!
And the movies? I'm freaking out!		 4/9/2011
Mad Hatter70 Ummm... Who is the company or organization who posted the webpage? Need to do it for a bibliography. HELP ME! 4/8/2011
brooke b. Im writing a biography on j.k. rowling for my language arts class and your facts have been very helpful to me! thank you very much, these facts will help to me to write a better biography and, in turn, get a better grade. thanks again! 4/7/2011
mary cool 4/6/2011
Mad Hatter70 Thanks! This helped me a lot with Bio Fair 4/5/2011
Charlotte I am in Rowling reading group and it is so awesome to study about you and reading lots of your books because it might make me be a writer that is my dream and to be a lovely teacher because of all the things they do when they teach it is would be so wonderful to meet you 1 day I heard about the sad news with her husband about the divorce and your lovely beautiful daughter Jessica hope you's are well and safe all the best 3/22/2011
Koto good 3/17/2011
your nan nice scar 3/16/2011
Moe Still love ya! 3/3/2011
Moe Harry Potter: coolest person ever! JK Rowling is awesome! I love your work! 3/1/2011
un named to much! 2/15/2011
maryam J.K. rowling is an amazing writer I watched all the movies and the books from her 1/30/2011
maryam J.K. is the best person ever 1/30/2011
yoanna wats up 1/28/2011
bree that great 1/13/2011
Bobby J.K. Rowling is AMAZING! 1/9/2011
regular show bb Yea uh 12/24/2010
no 1 bakugan pl I LOVE JK ROWLING! 12/24/2010
T W S H yer "Billy" did! 11/30/2010
chloe Lansfeald Exalant for home work! 11/30/2010
coaco age7 That guy billie rote to much 11/29/2010
coaco age7 I read all of your boks and i think they are grate 11/29/2010
tootypooh jk rowling si awesome 11/29/2010
Caleb-6th grade I have read all the books and in my computer class we are writing fan letters and mine is going to J.K. Rowling. The Harry Potter books are my favorites of all time. My favorite is the Deathly Hallows. I love all the grat details that are put into all her work. 11/18/2010
emily great info really useful 11/11/2010
Sarah Bolding Great job! You guys listed lots of important information about J.K. Rowling 11/1/2010
kaykay I love your books and i`m reading the 4th one. you are one of my favorite athor. 10/31/2010
ciara y would she write another book thats the books finished she cant write more hp books if harry is older and he who should not be named is dead! 9/26/2010
ciara jk rowling is 45!thanks i needed info for ma school project this website is great!btw i don't want to be a spoiler if some one is reading this and has not read the 7th book but mcgonagall and slughorn do not marry slughorn dies an fleur and bill marry! 9/26/2010
Ciara i love jk rowling and i love harry potter!her life story is fabulous and so is her imaginagetion!harry potter is an amazing world to enter and jk rowling is a legend for creating it! 9/26/2010
erin very good but not all of that is true 9/15/2010
charlotte very good website 9/12/2010
Kirstin This website helped me a lot for my homework . It gave me all the information I needed and more. I would recommend this website to everyone. 9/4/2010
ja wow 8/31/2010
Aisha I wish you lived with me! 6/26/2010
Aisha I love you I love all your books!
Harry Potter:)		 6/26/2010
harrypottern1fa thanks 4 the info, this helped me w/ a school project 6/3/2010
MONGOOSE I cant remember who gets married in the 7th book...?
A:BILL & FLEUR
B:SLUGHORN & MCNOGALL		 5/28/2010
Matthew B. NOT A CLUE TO SAY...JUST KEEP WRITING HARRY POTTER BOOKS! 5/28/2010
harrry jk Rowlings r u eva gonna write another harry potter book like and 8 or 9 5/26/2010
harry this is so stupid im the biggest harry potter fan eva in the world i have all the book in soft cover and hard if u need info type it on her and ill tell u if its wrong or right 5/26/2010
Alyson I love your books 5/24/2010
Anthony How do you get ideas for your books? 5/20/2010
bella you are 1 of my favourit wirtes 5/13/2010
cheezy d I would agree that all of these facts are true 5/6/2010
james j.k rowling will you ever write any more fantasy books about other children and majical lands 4/27/2010
james i love harry potter 4/26/2010
billie J.K. Rowling, needless to say, is one of the most popular writers of the day. The Harry Potter Series, authored by her, was a phenomenon. This series had to face politics and debates from world over but it emerged as one of biggest successes in the modern-day literature. The Harry Potter Series reached the zenith of popularity and earned J.K. Rowling an international acclaim. Take a look at some interesting facts about J.K. Rowling.

Facts about J.K. Rowling
Joanne "Jo" Rowling is a British writer who writes under the pen name J.K. Rowling. Besides the Potter novels, she is also famous for her "rags to riches" life story. Interestingly, her first Harry Potter book read her name as Joanne Rowling after which her publisher Bloomsbury requested her to use her initials rather than disclosing her first name. The publisher was afraid that young boys might not buy books written by a female author. She had no middle name and derived the letter 'K' from her paternal grandmother Kathleen. And this was how the name, 'J.K. Rowling' was born.Now let us look at the facts about the person bearing this name.
Joanne was born on July 31, 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England to Peter James Rowling and Anne Rowling. She had a two-year younger sister. Within a few years from her birth, the Rowlings shifted to a village called Winterbourne.
During her childhood she was always interested in writing fantasy stories. She used to narrate stories to her younger sister. The first story written by her was that of a rabbit, which gets measles and has different friends visiting it.
She was a student of St Michael's Primary School. When she was 9, she shifted to Tutshill, a village near Chepstow, South Wales. During her early teens, her aunt gifted her an old copy of Jessica Mitford's autobiography, ‘Hons and Rebels’. On reading this book, Joanne idealized Mitford and read all her books.
She was a student of the secondary school at Wyedean School and College. After a BA in French and Classics at the University of Exeter, she went for a year of study to Paris. She then moved to London and worked as a researcher and a bilingual secretary for Amnesty International.
How did 'Harry Potter' come to her? J.K. Rowling says that the idea of this story struck her while she was traveling in a train from Manchester to London in 1990. The idea of a boy attending a school of wizardry came to her mind during this train journey. On reaching her destination, she began writing.
She claimed her headmaster at primary school to have been her inspiration behind the character, Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter. Hermione, another famous character of Harry Potter, was based on her own self. According to J.K. Rowling, Hermione resembles the way Joanne herself looked during her teen years. The character, Ron Weasley of Harry Potter bears a slight similarity with Joanne's friend Sean Harris. The demise of her mother in the December of 1990 deeply impacted Joanne’s writings. It was then, that she introduced the details about Harry's loss in her first book.
Later, Rowling migrated to Porto, Portugal and served as an English teacher. In 1992, she married Jorge Arantes, a television journalist of Portugal. They had a girl child in July 1993 and in November of the same year they parted ways. Rowling, with her little daughter, Jessica, moved to Edinburgh, Scotland. J.K.Rowling was going through bad times, and this was when she mulled over suicide. During that time she was in depression. The thoughts of her illness gave rise to the idea of Dementors, the soulless creatures that became a part of 'Harry Potter'.
Circumstances were not kind to her. She was unemployed and living on the state benefits. She had to take care of her baby and also pursue writing and she was all-alone in this struggle. She had to take time out to write when she could put her baby to bed. To make her baby fall asleep, she used to take her out and sit in cafes, completing her novel. She completed her first novel in different cafes, especially Nicholson's Cafe.
Even after the completion of her first book, success did not come easy. Her work was rejected by many publishers till editor Barry Cunningham from Bloomsbury accepted her writings. It was actually, Cunningham's eight-year-old daughter who was given the first chapter of Rowling's book to read. On reading the first one, she demanded the next one, which led to Cunningham's decision of publishing Rowling's work. Sometimes, little things lead to huge successes. No one was very sure of the response that Rowling's writings would get, but a success story had begun!
After her first book in the Harry Potter series, 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone', Rowling received a grant from the Scottish Arts Council to enable her to continue writing. In 1997, the book won its first award, a Nestle Smarties Book Prize followed by the award for the Children's Book of the Year and then the Children's Book Award. In 1999, the book, 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban', won the Smarties Prize. J.K. Rowling was the first one making a hat trick of this award. 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire', released in 2000, made a record-breaking sale in UK and US. In the US, three million copies were sold during the first forty-eight hours, breaking all the sale records.
After a gap of three years, her fifth book in the Harry Potter series, titled, 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix' was released. Rowling had admitted to have become exhausted towards the completion of this book. 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' hit the market in 2005. It broke records and won the 'Book of the Year Prize'. 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows', the seventh in the series became the most fast selling book after its release in 2007.
The Sunday Times Rich List of 2008 has ranked J.K. Rowling as the 12th richest woman in Britain. According to the Forbes' ranking, she is the 48th most powerful celebrity of 2007. She was a runner-up for the 'Person of the Year' title of 2007.
Today she supports many charities and serves as a social and political inspiration for many. She is one of the iconic figures in literature. Readers all around the world, mesmerized by her works, are looking forward for more from this brilliant authoress, J.K. Rowling.		 3/18/2010
Dineilla how old is jk rowling now? never told us that! 3/11/2010
lozz it gave me all the info i needed 2/7/2010
georgina good books yeh ! 2/2/2010
Jk Rowling I love J.K Rowling books espicallly harry pottter. I have read all of them and I also have seen all the movies rock on 1/14/2010
hi this was great thanks bye 1/14/2010
kekbot nice story 1/11/2010
eman She also lived in a car for a while because of her divorce 11/23/2009
Jessica Jade I think it is all very usefull information plus all very detailed 10/29/2009
Jolie she was porr as a kid you make it like she had a great life 10/11/2009
Jade Green These facts were fabulous and they were very helpful for my essay about JK! ROCK ON! 9/18/2009
Mia Clark Those facts were GREAT! 9/14/2009
shantelle iwhat to learn more what are your children called 9/12/2009
Kiara Newfound I reckon JK Rowling is a good writer. Selling over 1,000,000 copies of her books is a big achievment. Good on her. 7/26/2009
melissa very good 6/2/2009
Austin Grigg It was very breath takeing and unbalievable, but i want to now what was her favorite time of day to write and where. Also I want to know her techniques and craft 5/20/2009
Brody thank you. ur facts are helping me with an essay i have to write 5/18/2009
Emily Charlotte How did you do all this bookw but i love you 5/5/2009
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