Jk Rowling

Although she writes under the pen defecate J. K. Rowling her name when her first Harry muck about book was make was simply Joanne Rowling. Her publishing company Bloomsbury feared that the target audience of boyish boys might be reluctant to demoralize books written by a female author, and requested that she use two initials, rather than reveal her first name. Born on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England She attended St Michaels Primary School. Her professional, Alfred Dunn, has been suggested as the inspiration for the Harry Potter headmaster Albus Dumbledore. She attended secondary school at Wyedean School and College.Rowling has said of her adolescence, Hermione A bookish, know-all Harry Potter character is loosely based on me. Shes a mimicry of me when I was eleven, which Im not particularly proud of. Rowling read for a BA in French and Classics at the University of Exeter, and after a year of ruminate in Paris, she moved to London to work as a tec and biling ual secretary for Amnesty International. In 1990, while she was on a train trip from Manchester to London, the thought process for a story of a young boy attending a school of wizardry came fully organize into her mind.She told The Boston Globe that I really dont know where the idea came from. It started with Harry, then(prenominal) all these characters and situations came flooding into my head. Rowling then moved to Porto, Portugal to teach English as a foreign language. 25 While there, on 16 October 1992, she married Portuguese television journalist Jorge Arantes. Their child, Jessica Isabel Rowling Arantes was born on 27 July 1993 in Portugal. 36 They scattered in November 1993. 36HYPERLINK l cite_note-36&824337In December 1993, Rowling and her daughter moved to be high-priced her sister in Edinburgh, Scotland. 18 During this period Rowling was diagnosed with clinical depression, and contemplated suicide. 38 It was the feeling of her illness which brought her the idea of De mentors, soul-sucking creatures introduced in the third book. 39 In 1995, Rowling finished her manuscript for Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone on an old manual typewriter. The book was submitted to twelve publishing houses, all of which rejected the manuscript. 36 A year later she was finally habituated the green light (and a ? 1500 advance) by editor Barry Cunningham from Bloomsbury, a comminuted British publishing house in London, England.Soon after, in 1997, Rowling received an ? 8000 present from the Scottish Arts Council to enable her to continue writing. 49 The following spring, an auction was held in the United States for the rights to publish the novel, and was win by Scholastic Inc. , for $105,000. In June 1997, Bloomsbury published Philosophers Stone with an initial print-run of 1000 copies. Five months later, the book won its first award, a Nestle Smarties Book Prize. In February, the novel won the prestigious British Book Award for Childrens Book of the Year, and later, the Childrens Book Award.