Biography

Joanne Rowling

She was born on July 31, 1965 in England a northeast of Bristol. Her parent’s names were Ana Rowling and Peter James Rowling. She has a little sister her name is Dianna Rowling .They moved to the nearby village Winterbourne when Rowling was four years old

Her education started in St Michael´s Primary School at that time she really enjoyed to write short stories and then told to her sister. When she was a teenager her family had to move to Curch Cottage in the Gloucestershire village of Tutshill, close to Chepstow, Wales. Rowling studied in the secondary school at College. It was a difficult time for her because her mother was very ill , and she had a difficult relation with her father . Then she tried to took the entrance test for Oxford but she was not accepted, so she went to Classics at the University of Exeter in France.

In 1991 one day in a travel to Manchester to London she started to write Harry Potter character, but her mother died in this year, so her life changed a lot ,she decided to moved to Portugal and teach English like Foreign language; she married and has daughter ,but one year later she divorced because she suffered domestic abuse. Then she moved with her daughter to Scotland and in that time she had the three principal character of her book.

In 1995 Rowling finished her first book Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone one year later the book was published by editor Barry Cunningham from Bloomsbury .In 1997 Bloomsbury published 1000 copies of Philosopher's Stone. In this moment her adventure began, she wrote a complete collection of Harry Potter seven books with a story about a child noticed that he is a wizard.

Her project about this book became her in one of the most millionaire persons in England and around the world, Harry Potter is not only a book .Also she motive to created all the collection in movies , become in one of the most successful stories on the big screen. She is a incredible women that also support many benefits organization for example: Anti-poverty and children's welfare and Multiple sclerosis. She said all the time it doesn´t matter how many obstacle do you have in your life you never give up. Rowling lives in England with her family and continues writing.

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