Joanne Kathleen Rowling (pronounced rolling) was born on July 31st, 1965 in Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England. Her sister, Di, was born a little under 2 years later. Rowling can remember telling stories from early on and writing down her first story when she was 5 or 6 years old - about a rabbit called Rabbit who got the measles and was visited by friends including a giant bee called Miss Bee.
2007-01-05 04:43:24
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answered by Lorene 4
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JK Rowling's first story was about a Rabbit with measles called rabbit and was visited by friends including a giant bee called Miss Bee.
She wrote her first story at an age of about 5 or 6 years.
2007-01-05 04:38:06
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answered by Coolguy_punjabi 3
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her first book was RABBITS
Joanne Kathleen Rowling (pronounced rolling) was born on July 31st, 1965 in Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England. Her sister, Di, was born a little under 2 years later. Rowling can remember telling stories from early on and writing down her first story when she was 5 or 6 years old - about a rabbit called Rabbit who got the measles and was visited by friends including a giant bee called Miss Bee.
Joanne Rowling, OBE (born July 31, 1965[1]) is an English fiction writer who writes under the pen name J. K. Rowling.[2] Rowling is most famously known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series, which has gained international attention, won multiple awards, and sold over 375 million copies worldwide.[3] In February 2004, Forbes magazine estimated her fortune at £576 million (just over US$1 billion), making her the first person to become a US-dollar billionaire by writing books.[4] Rowling earned US$75 million in 2005
Joanne Rowling was born in Yate, South Gloucestershire, England on 31 July 1965,[1] 12 miles northeast of Bristol.[5] Her sister Dianne was born at their home when Rowling was 1 year and 11 months old.[5] The family moved to the nearby village Winterbourne when Rowling was four where she attended St Michael's Primary School,[6] later moving to Tutshill, near Chepstow, South Wales at the age of nine.[5] She attended secondary school at Wyedean School and College. In December 1990, Rowling’s mother succumbed to a 10-year-long battle with multiple sclerosis.[5] Rowling commented, “I was writing Harry Potter at the moment my mother died. I had never told her about Harry Potter. Dad called me at seven o’clock the next morning and I just knew what had happened before he spoke. … I was alternately a wreck and then in total denial. … Barely a day goes by when I do not think of her. There would be so much to tell her, impossibly much.”[7]
After studying French and Classics at the University of Exeter (she had previously applied to Oxford but was turned down), with a year of study in Paris, she moved to London to work as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International. During this period, she had the idea for a story of a young boy attending a school of wizardry while she was on a four-hour delayed-train trip between Manchester and London.[5] When she had reached her destination, she began writing immediately.[5][8]
Rowling then moved to Porto, Portugal to teach English as a foreign language. While there, she married Portuguese television journalist Jorge Arantes on 16 October 1992.[9] They had one child, Jessica, who was named after Rowling’s heroine, Jessica Mitford. They divorced in 1993 after a fight in which Jorge threw her out of the house.[5][9][10]
In December 1994, Rowling and her daughter moved to be near Rowling’s sister in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.[5] Unemployed and living on state benefits, she completed her first novel. She did much of the work in the Elephant House café whenever she could get Jessica to fall asleep.[5][11] There was a rumour that she wrote in local cafés to escape from her unheated flat, but in a 2001 BBC interview Rowling remarked, “I am not stupid enough to rent an unheated flat in Edinburgh in midwinter. It had heating.”[11]
2007-01-05 05:18:44
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answered by jolie 2
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harry potter, she was a mother that told the stories to her child, then decided to put them on paper...
2007-01-05 04:42:30
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answered by Emily E 4
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