joanne rowling: the girl who grew up to write harry potter.
joanne rowling was born on july 31, 1965. her younger sister dianne was born almost two years later and joanne’s earliest childhood memory is dianne’s arrival. She, her sister, and her parents lived in Winterbourne, Gloucestershire, until Joanne was nine years old, when the family moved to Tutshill, near Chepstow.
joanne grew up surrounded by books, as her mom and dad loved to read. she says, “I lived for books… I was your run-of-the-mill bookworm, complete with freckles and national health glasses.” joanne wanted to be a writer. She wrote her first book at the age of six: a story about a rabbit named Rabbit. Then, when she was eleven years old, she wrote a novel about seven cursed diamonds and the people who owned them.
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joanne went to school at the wyedean comprehensive school and then studied french and classics at the university of exeter. His studies of the classics would come in handy later when he thought of all the spells in Harry Potter, some of which are based on Latin!
j.k. Rowling first got the idea for Harry Potter when she was late on a train traveling from Manchester to King’s Cross in London in 1990. Over the next five years, she began planning the seven books in the series. she wrote mostly by hand and amassed a mountain of notes, many of which were on scraps of paper.
He arrived in Edinburgh in 1993 with three chapters of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in his suitcase. she now had a young daughter, jessica, but continued to write in every spare moment she could find. When Joanne had finished the manuscript, she sent the first three chapters to various literary agents, one of whom responded by asking to see the rest. she says it was “the best letter I’ve ever received in my life.”
After finishing the first book and while studying as a teacher, Bloomsbury accepted the publication of Harry Potter. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone quickly became a bestseller after its publication in 1997. As the book was translated into other languages, Harry Potter began to spread throughout the world, and J.K. rowling soon received thousands of letters from fans.
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since then, the harry potter books have broken many records. In 2007, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows became the best-selling book in history, selling 2.65 million in the first 24 hours in the UK. The Harry Potter series is now published in 80 languages and has sold more than 500 million copies worldwide. JK Rowling has also written three companion volumes in aid of charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos); and the tales of beedle the bard (in aid of lumos). In 2015 JK Rowling’s 2008 Harvard commencement address was published under the title ‘Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination’ (in aid of Lumos and College Financial Aid at Harvard). in 2012, J. k. Rowling’s digital company Pottermore was launched, becoming Wizarding World Digital in 2019. Pottermore Publishing continues to be the global digital publisher of Harry Potter, Fantastic Beasts and the Wizarding World. jk rowling has written a movie script inspired by fantastic beasts and where to find them, and the movie will be released in fall 2016. in addition to the collaboration of j.k. rowling in harry potter and the cursed child, parts i & ii, a new original story from j.k.rowling, jack thorne and john tiffany, a new work by jack thorne, will also make his screenwriting debut with the film fantastic beasts and where to find them, a further expansion of the wizarding world, due for release in November 2016.
j.k. Rowling has received many awards and honors, including an OBE for her services to children’s literature, France’s Légion d’honneur, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award.
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