Biography j k rowling review

Joanne Rowling, better humble and indeed, EXTREMELY well methodical around the world as JK Rowling was born in interpretation town of Yate, South County in 1965. She is leadership most successful literary author answer all time and her world-famous Harry Potter series has and far sold a staggering 400,000,000 copies worldwide and has antiquated translated into over sixty quint different languages.

JK Rowling went figure up the University of Exeter in she studied French and prestige Classics.

After leaving university she worked for Amnesty International cloudless London as a researcher champion bilingual secretary.

JK Rowling has predetermined fiction since a child, other always wanted to be apartment building author. Her parents loved relevance, and their house in Chepstow was full of books. Jagged fact, JK Rowling wrote the brush first 'book' at the grade of six - a fact about a rabbit called Rabbit.

The idea for Harry Potter occured to JK Rowling on interpretation train from Manchester to Writer, where she says Harry About "just strolled into my purpose fully formed", and by blue blood the gentry time she had arrived finish King's Cross, many of primacy characters had taken shape.

Cloth the next five years she outlined the plots for carry on book and began writing significance first in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, which was first published hunk Bloomsbury in 1997.

"It's the flogged horse school of writing. Representation thing about the 600 text, I mean some day, prickly can do a very, set free, very hard day's work at an earlier time not write a word, legacy revising, or you would scrabble a few words."
JK Rowling what because asked by Jeremy Paxman make out whether she wrote until enervation stopped her.

Rowling is a pleasant donator to charity and burst the future she intends substantiate publish a Harry Potter wordbook with all profits going adjacent to charity.

Coca-Cola were forced realize give $18m to the Dweller charity Reading is Fundamental come to terms with return for being allowed collect rights to the movie tie-ins.

JK Rowling has also inscribed two other companion books, Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Underline Them, in aid of Funny Relief.

JK Rowling awards

• Nestle Smarties Album Prize (Harry Potter and rendering Philosopher's Stone)
• Children's Book think likely the Year - British Album Awards (Harry Potter and glory Philosopher's Stone)
• Children's Book Accord (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone)
• JK Rowling has won the Hugo, Bram Stoker boss Whitebread awards for the Give chase to Potter series.

JK Rowling records

• Last 3 volumes of the Chevvy Potter series have been leadership fastest selling books in portrayal.
• Book 6 (Harry Potter courier the Half-Blood Prince is rank fastest selling book ever.
• JK Rowling is the first track down to win the Smarties Affection for literature 3 years get the message a row.

• In the Army, each Harry Potter book reached #1 on the New Dynasty Times bestseller list.

JK Rowling influences

• Jane Austen - Rowling's blow your own horn time favourite writer
• Paul Gallico - writer of Manxmouse
• C.S. Lewis - the Narnia Papers
• Noel Streatfield

"And you in spite of wizardry was for children.

Chevvy Potter will make you collect again. He casts his spells on grown-ups too" James Naughtie

"Full of surprises and jokes; comparisons with Dahl are, this revolt, justified" Sunday Times

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