Joanne Kathleen Rowling

J.K. Rowling or Joanne Kathleen Rowling (born Joanne Rowling the July 31st 1965 in Yate, in the Gloucestershire of the South, England) is a British Romancière . She is especially known like the author of the series Harry Potter, whose volumes are regarded as the books most frequently sold nowadays.

Young mother divorced living allowances, it started to write Harry Potter in 1990. Following the planetary success of the series, Rowling is with the head of a fortune estimated in 2007 by the The Sunday Times Rich List at 545 million books (approximately 810 million Euros or 1,1 billion USD).

Biography

Family, childhood and education

His/her parents, Peter Rowling (born in 1945) and Anne Rowling born Flying (1945-1990), came both from London. They marry in March 1965, four months before the birth of Joanne. The complete name is Joanne Rowling, instead of “Joanne Kathleen Rowling”. June 28th, 1967, Anne Rowling gives rise to her second Diane daughter, who works today like Juriste.

Rowling writes its first complete account at the six years age. It is about the history of a rabbit, history whose title is Lapin ( Rabbit in original version). At the school, it is terrorized by its mistress of elementary school, which places the children in the class according to the intelligence that it lends to them, most brilliant on the left, most stupid on the right. “I was as far on the right as one could the being without being sitted in the playground”, remembers Rowling.

At the secondary school, “quiet, short-sighted, covered of Freckles and null in sport”, Rowling tells already with his/her friends of long accounts born of its imagination and its preferred matter was the English, followed by the languages. Having finished its school studies, she asks the Université of Oxford, but its file is refused because the school from which she comes does not enjoy a good reputation.

The beginning of “Harry Potter”

It is at the time of a voyage by train of Manchester to London that it concocte in its head the history of a young boy who discovers his talents of magician, and leaves in a school wizard. “The idea simply came to be trotted in my head, fully formed” will say it. Then, at the time to arrive at King' S Cross-country race, much of the characters had taken form. It loses her mother in 1990 because of the sclerosis and this untimely death will probably inspire the feelings which its orphan hero with regard to his parents deceased nourishes.

The first marriage

To change air, Joanne Rowling leaves for Oporto, with the Portugal, to teach English there. Every morning, before going to work, it writes the adventures of Harry Potter. Rowling Marie on October 16th 1992 with the Portuguese journalist Jorge Arantes. Having made a miscarriage, it ends up giving rise to his/her daughter Jessica Isabel Rowling Arantes on July 27th 1993. However, the couple more and more often disputes and in November 1993 Joanne Rowling is thrown outside by her husband. The marriage shows a divorce in 1995 and it turns over to the the United Kingdom to settle in her sister with Edinburgh, where it saw allowances.

A world success

“The only means of deadening Jessica was to walk it by poussette”, told the writer, who was going to walk it to a coffee where she wrote. The completed book, it sends the first three chapters to an agent, which is not interested. A second agent accepts to represent it, but it takes him one year to find an editor, Bloomsbury , in August 1996. With the publication of its first volume, Bloomsbury fears that it group-target of little boys balks to buy books written by a woman. He consequently asks him to use two initial rather than to reveal his first name. Not having a second first name, it chooses “K” while thinking of her Kathleen grandmother, like second initial of its pseudonym. “Kathleen” thus never belonged to its legal name.

The first three volumes are Best-seller S and it is devoted to the writing. With the fourth volume, Harry Potter becomes a social phenomenon: at its exit, parents and children make the tail to put the hand above.

Translated in addition to 60 languages, the first six novels were sold to 325 million specimens on the whole. Ten days after its launching, the volume 7 is already past with more than 11 million specimens. The first five episodes were adapted to the cinema. The derivative products fill the rays of the stores of toys. One lends to him a fortune higher than that of the queen Elisabeth II; she is currently the woman with the head of the largest fortune of the United Kingdom.

The second marriage

In spite of its celebrity, J.K. Rowling carries out a cloistered life in the Perthshire and almost does not give interviews. December 26th 2001, it remarie with the doctor Anesthetist Neil Murray in a private ceremony which takes place in its house. March 23rd 2003, Rowling puts at the world his/her son David Gordon Rowling Murray. Two years later, on January 23rd 2005 was born his/her daughter Mackenzie Jean Rowling Murray.

In July 2005, it had granted five interviews of launching of the volume 6, including one with a 14 year old fan selected among thousands of other candidates. It had indicated to him that it would not put at the writing of the seventh and last opus “before the end of the year, the beginning of the year next”, preferring to devote itself for the moment to her children. “I apprehend in a certain way of completing the series”, had it says. “I adore to write the books and that will be a shock, a major shock for me”.

December 21st, 2006, J.K. Rowling announces on its Internet site that the title of the last volume will be Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the Gallimard editions announced on June 5th, 2007 the official title Harry Potter and the relics of dead the .

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