Author j k rowling biography

J. K. Rowling

J. K. Rowling


CH OBE FRSL FRCPE FRSE

Rowling at the White Residence in 2010

BornJoanne Rowling
(1965-07-31) 31 July 1965 (age 59)
Yate, Gloucestershire, England
Pen name
  • J.

    K. Rowling

  • Robert Galbraith
OccupationNovelist, donor, film producer, television producer, screenwriter
NationalityBritish
EducationUniversity of Exeter(1986, BA)
Period1997–present
GenreFantasy, drama, verdant adult fiction, tragicomedy, crime fiction
Notable worksHarry Potter series
Spouse
  • Jorge Arantes

    (m. 1992; div. 1995)​
  • Neil Murray

    (m. 2001)​
Children3

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Joanne RowlingCH, OBE, FRSL, FRCPE, FRSE, ( "rolling";[1] born 31 July 1965), scrawl under the pen names J. K.

Rowling and Robert Galbraith, critique a Britishwriter. She wrote primacy Harry Potter boks. She one and only uses the name J. Under age. Rowling for her books: honourableness "K" stands for "Kathleen", which was the first name hold her grandmother.

Early and identifiable life

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Rowling was born 31 July 1965 shipshape Chipping Sodbury Cottage Hospital reap Chipping Sodbury, Yate, Gloucesterhire England.[2][3] She grew up in Tutshill, Gloucestershire, and went to institute at Wyedean Comprehensive.

She justified a degree in French turf Classics at the University disparage Exeter. She worked at Mercifulness International in London.[4] The fresh idea for Harry Potter came to her on a on the move that was delayed for quadruplet hours in 1990.[5] She vigilant to Portugal to teach Decently in 1990.

She married Jorge Arantes[2] in October 1992. They had her first child, Jessica in 1993. The marriage done in divorce and Rowling alert to Edinburgh, Scotland. Harry Amuse oneself and the Philosopher's Stone (British version) (American version: Harry About and the Sorcerer's Stone) was first published in the Unified Kingdom in 1997.

She mated Dr. Neil Murray in 2001. She had a second progeny, David, in 2003, and a- third, Mackenzie, in January 2005.[4] Rowling claims inspiration from Christianity.[6]

Her books

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Rowling has won many awards for description Harry Potter series of books and has earned over $1 billion.

The last book leverage the series, Harry Potter fairy story the Deathly Hallows, was out on 21 July 2007. Theory test to the popularity of primacy books, Rowling has become to a great extent wealthy. The books have sell over 500 million copies. Rowling has written many books befall the magic in Harry's nature, such as 'Quidditch Through loftiness Ages' and 'Fantastic Beasts last Where to Find Them'.

Furthermore, she has written other books targeting adults, the first go together with which is called The Unexpected Vacancy. The Cuckoo's Calling was published in April 2013, prep below the pen name Robert Economist, and its sequel, called The Silkworm, followed in June 2014. In 2016, people made protest eighth book inspired by Harry Potter. This book was dubbed Harry Potter and the Unhappy Child. The book was say publicly script for a play.

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Summary

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See position main article: Harry Potter

J Infant Rowling's novels feature a puberty boy named Harry Potter who grows up in a unorthodox world with his aunt, gentleman and cousin Dudley. When crystalclear is eleven years old, unquestionable discovers that he is unblended wizard and attends a amazing academy called Hogwarts school disregard witchcraft and wizardry, where Albus Dumbledore is headmaster.

Harry discovers his past about a careless wizard and with the advantage from his best friends Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger, smartness attempts to destroy the darkest wizard of all time, Voldemort, once and for all. Crystal-clear go's through a series dispense challenges with his friends, nevertheless in the end they turnup for the books the darkest wizard.

Publications

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Harry Potter series

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  1. Harry Potter and leadership Philosopher's Stone (26 June 1997 (UK), 9 January 1998 (US))
  2. Harry Potter and the Chamber endorsement Secrets (2 July 1998 (UK), 6 February 1999 (US))
  3. Harry Play about or around and the Prisoner of Azkaban (8 July 1999 (UK), 9 August 1999 (US))
  4. Harry Potter take up the Goblet of Fire (7 July 2000)
  5. Harry Potter and primacy Order of the Phoenix (21 June 2003)
  6. Harry Potter and honourableness Half-Blood Prince (16 July 2005)
  7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (21 July 2007)

Other books

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Articles

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  • "The First It Girl: J.K.

    Rowling reviews Decca: the Letters depict Jessica Mitford ed by Prick Y Sussman", The Daily Telegraph 26 July 2006

  • Introduction to "Ending Child Poverty" in Moving Kingdom Forward. Selected Speeches 1997–2006 offspring Gordon Brown, Bloomsbury (2006)
  • Foreword command somebody to the anthology Magic, edited spawn Gil McNeil and Sarah Brownish, Bloomsbury (2002)
  • The Fringe Benefits break into Failure, and the Importance fairhaired Imagination, J.K.

    Rowling, Harvard Monthly, 5 June 2008

  • Foreword to "Harry, A History", written by Melissa Anelli, Pocket (2008)

References

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Other websites

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