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=  About the author  = =  J. K. Rowling  = Joanne “Jo” Rowling was born 31 July 1965 in Yate, England. She writes under the pen name J.K Rowling. Joanne is a British author and is best known as the creator of the Harry Potter fantasy series. The Harry Potter books have gained worldwide attention, sold 400 million copies and not to forget won multiple awards. ==  Joanne is the daughter of Anne and Peter James Rowling. Joanne’s sister Dianne was born two years later. When Joanne was about four years old, the family moved to the nearby village Winterbourne. There Joanne attended St Michael’s Primary School, a very old school which was founded as much as 200 years ago. As a child Joanne loved writing stories, especially fantasy stories. She used to read them out loud for her sister Dianne. At the age of nine, Joanne moved to her great aunt in the Gloucestershire village of Tutshill, close to Wales. She gave Joanne a very old copy of Jessica Mitford’s autobiography, called “Hons and Rebels”. Joanne loved Mitford’s books and subsequently read all of her books. ==   Later Joanne attended secondary school. She was a very cleaver student and got significant results. During her stay at Wyedean School and College, Joanne got to know a lot of different people, who she later used as characters in her Harry Potter books. When she had finished secondary school, Joanne moved to London to work as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International. At the age of 35, while Joanne was on a five-hour- delayed train trip from Manchester to London, the idea of a wizard called Harry Potter attending a magic school suddenly popped up in her head. She started to fantasize and make up new characters and a lot of situations just came flooding into her head. Immediately when she reached the train station, she started writing down her idea. However, in December the same year, Joanne’s mother died after a ten- year battle with multiple sclerosis. Joanne was writing about Harry Potter when her mother died. She had never told her mother about Harry Potter. The loss of her mother affected a lot of Joanne’s writing. Subsequently she introduced much more details about Harry’s loss in the books, because she knew much more about how it felt. Joanna then moved to Portugal where she started teaching English as a foreign language. There she met a Portuguese television journalist called Jorge Arantes. She married him and got a daughter. Joanne called her daughter Jessica Isabel, named after Jessica Mitford. After a short marriage Joanne and her husband separated. Joanne took her daughter Jessica Isabel and moved to her sister in Edinburgh, Scotland. During this period Joanne got depression, and contemplated suicide! Poor and unemployed Rowling published her first novel "Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s stone” It turned out that it would not be easy for Rowling to publish the book. Rowling had a tough job, trying to find someone who could publish it. The publisher believed that the book wasn’t good enough and that she wouldn’t be able to earn money on it. After a lot off mess, she finally got response from a tiny publishing house from London called Bloomsbury, which agreed to publish her book. Only  five months later, the book won its first award, Nestlé Smarties Book Prize. Its sequel, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, was published in July, 1998. Since 1998 Rowling has written five more books about the Wizard Harry Potter.

After this enormous success, J.K. Rowling has gone from being a divorced unemployed single parent to becoming one of the richest women in the world