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About the author of Harry Potter

British J.K Rowling grew up in a poor family, but loved writing very much. He often went to a nearby cafe to read. One day, he was riding a train and saw a little boy wearing a pointy hat and strange clothes, which caught the writer's attention. After that, she used her bold imagination to create the "Harry Potter" series of books, which became popular all over the world. Full name: Joanne Kathleen Rowling Joanne Kathleen Rowling

Pen name: J.K. Rowling Full name: Joanne Kathleen Rowling (Joanne Kathleen Rowling) is a misinformation and is not hers real name. Rowling's only given name is "Joanne". Before the first Harry Potter was published, publishers worried that Rowling's female identity would affect the sales of her works and persuaded her to use a gender-neutral pen name. Rowling, who was poor at the time, agreed and gave herself the pen name J.K. Rowling, even though she did not have the middle name Kathleen in her first name. Nickname: Friends call her "JO", fans call her "JK", and friends call her "JAKE" when joking. Flower name: Her classmates sometimes tease her by calling her "Rolling Pin" and "Rolling Stone". Childhood: Rowling herself said that when she was a child, she was a girl with glasses and a plain face, who loved to study very much, was a bit shy, had a runny nose, and was quite wild. During her childhood, she had the experience of moving twice. One was from Yate (on one side of Bristol Harbour) to Winterbourne (on the other side of Bristol Harbour), and the other was from Winterbourne to the countryside at Tutshill near Chepstow. Parents: Father Peter is a retired manager of aircraft manufacturer Rolls-Royce, and mother Ann is a laboratory technician. She died of illness in 1990 at the age of 45. They fell in love at first sight on a train in 1963 and got married. Brothers and sisters: A sister named Dianne, also called Di, is two years younger than Rowling. She once studied as a nurse and is now studying law in Edinburgh. Marriage: Rowling briefly married Jorge Arantes, a Portuguese television news reporter, in 1990. Three years later, with the birth of their daughter, they divorced. On Boxing Day, the day after Christmas in December 2001, Rowling and anesthetist Neil Murray got married again at their new home in Scotland. In March 2003, they had a son named David. In January 2005, another cute little girl, Mackenzie, also came to the family. Today, Rowling lives happily in Edinburgh with her husband and three children. Children: Eldest daughter Jessica, born on June 27, 1993, lives with Rowling in Edinburgh, Scotland; son David, born in March 2003; youngest daughter Mackenzie, born in January 2005 Learning experience: Graduated from the University of Exeter in the UK, studied French and classical literature, and received a bachelor's degree in arts and sciences. Recently, he was awarded a doctorate by his alma mater. After graduation, he received teaching training in Manchester, England. Representative works: "Harry Potter" series

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In 1964, Anna Volante and Peter Rowling were on a trip from London's King's Cross They met on a train bound for Aberys, Scotland, and fell in love at first sight. Later, they both served in the navy. On March 14, 1965, Anna Volante and Peter Rowling were married at All Saints' Cathedral near Taffner Park, north London. Joanna Rowling was born on July 31, 1966 at Courtage Hospital, 240 Yate Station Avenue. On June 18, 1967, Rowling's younger sister, Diana Rowling, was born at her home in Yette.

In September 1970, Joanna Rowling started primary school at St. Michael's Cathedral English School on Highland Street, Winterbourne. September 1974 Joanna Rowling attends Tatshill Church Primary School. In the autumn of 1976, Rowling began school at Wydeen Comprehensive School in Sedbury. In 1980, Rowling's mother Anna Rowling (Anna Volante) was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a serious family disease. In 1982, Joanna Rowling became the student representative of Wydion Comprehensive High School, and her grades were very good. In 1983, Rowling’s mother, Anna Rowling, made a will and arranged her funeral arrangements. In the summer of 1983, Rowling graduated from the high school of Wydion Comprehensive School and took the entrance examination for Oxford University. In the autumn of 1983, Rowling began studying at the University of Exeter, England, majoring in French and Classics. In her second year of university from 1985 to 1986, Rowling came to Paris to participate in the "French Practical Activities" at the University of Exeter. She teaches English there. This is her first time teaching. Joanne Catherine Rowling

In the spring of 1987, Rowling graduated from the University of Exeter. In 1990, Rowling was on a train returning from Manchester to London when she suddenly came up with the story of Harry Potter. She had neither pen nor paper with her at the time, so she had to rely on her brain to remember every detail she thought of, and she didn't write it down until she got home. In 1990, Joanna Rowling's mother, Anna Rowling, died of multiple sclerosis at the age of 45. August 28, 1992 It is said that George Arantes proposed to Joanna Rowling on this day. On October 16, 1992, Joanna Rowling married Portuguese television journalist Jorge Arantes. The wedding was held in Obodo, Portugal. On July 27, 1993, Rowling’s daughter was born, named Jessica. On November 17, 1993, after a heated argument, George left Rowling alone on the streets of Obodo. Works by Joanne Catherine Rowling

On Christmas 1993, Rowling left George and returned to Edinburgh, Scotland with her daughter Jessica to live with her sister Diana. She brought back the Harry Potter manuscript along with her notes. In 1994, Joanna Rowling began working on her manuscript in a café while her daughter slept in a trolley next to the table. Rowling reluctantly applied for a government subsidy and received about $105 per week. Character Life

J.K. Rowling was born on July 31, 1965, in Gwent, England. J.K. Rowling's father is a retired executive at the Royce Rolle aircraft manufacturer, and her mother is a laboratory technician. Rowling was a plain-looking girl wearing glasses when she was a child. She loved to study very much, was a bit shy, had a runny nose, and was quite wild. She has loved writing and telling stories since she was a child. She wrote a story about rabbits when she was 6 years old. Her sister is the object of her storytelling. The drive and desire to create never left her. She worked briefly as a teacher and secretary. Since the late 1990s, a single mother named J.K. Rowling has been writing a new "Harry Potter" book for her daughter almost every year. When asked how many books the series will eventually have, , Rowling’s answer was seven. Because her mother once let her read a story about "Narnia", and there were seven books in the set: "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", "Prince Caspian", "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader", "The Silver Chair", "The Talking Horse and the Boy", "The Magician's Nephew" and "The Last Battle". Rowling loves English literature and majored in French in college. After graduation, she went to Portugal alone and fell in love with a local reporter. Unfortunately, this marriage came and went quickly. Soon, she returned to the UK with her 3-month-old daughter, Jessica, and lived in a small unheated apartment in Edinburgh. Unable to find a job, she had to rely on the meager unemployment benefits to support herself and her daughter. When Rowling was 24 years old, on a train journey from Manchester to London, a thin, black-haired wizard wearing glasses kept smiling at her from the car window. He suddenly broke into her life and gave her the idea of ????creating Harry Potter.

Although she didn't have paper or pen at hand at the time, she began to imagine wildly and finally pushed this Harry Potter boy's story to the world. Thus, Harry Potter was born - an 11-year-old boy with a thin stature, black messy hair, bright green eyes, wearing round glasses, and a thin, lightning-shaped scar on his forehead... Harry Potter has become a popular fairy tale character all over the world. As a single mother, the life of Rowling and her daughter was extremely difficult. When she started writing "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", the first book in the Harry Potter series of fairy tales, Rowling often went to a cafe near her home to bring Harry to her house because her house was small and cold. Potter's stories were written on small pieces of paper. However, her efforts soon paid off. The fairy tale attracted much attention upon its publication and received rave reviews, including the British National Book Award for Children's Fiction and the Smarty Book Gold Medal Award. Rowling then created "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" and "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" in 1998 and 1999 respectively, which further shocked the world. In July 2000, with the release of the fourth "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", the worldwide "Harry Potter" craze continued to heat up, creating a myth in the history of publishing. The fifth "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" was released in June 2003; the sixth "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" was released in July 2005. The sales momentum has been increasing every time, forming a The "Harry Potter" hurricane has become more and more violent one after another, and is regarded as a miracle in the publishing industry. The "Harry Potter phenomenon" has also become a hotly discussed topic among many experts and scholars. In the face of success and wealth, Rowling did not forget the suffering she had experienced. After becoming famous, she became passionate about humanitarian charity activities. In September 2000, she became the ambassador of the Single Parent Families Council and donated 500,000 pounds. In March 2001, she used the pseudonyms Newt Scamman and Ken to raise funds for Drama Relief, a group of British comedians founded in 1985 to promote social justice and help eradicate poverty. Nieves Whisp created two booklets related to the Harry Potter stories, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Amazing Quidditch, donating the proceeds to the foundation. In April 2001, in memory of her mother, she donated another £250,000 to the Multiple Sclerosis Society. On Boxing Day, the day after Christmas in 2001, Rowling and anesthetist Neil Murray got married again in their new home in Scotland. In March 2003, they had a son named David. In January 2005, another cute little girl, Mackenzie, also came to the family. Today, Rowling lives happily and low-key in Edinburgh with her husband and three children, continuing to write her "Harry Potter" stories amidst the expectations of Harry Potter fans. On July 7, 2007, the seventh and final novel in the Harry Potter series, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," was officially completed. Author J.K. Rowling has completed the final chapter of this masterpiece. But recently there is news that Rowling will write "Haha 8". JK Rowling, a 45-year-old British female writer, has created a sales myth in the contemporary publishing industry with her "Harry Potter" series of novels, and has also made herself a super-rich woman whose wealth exceeds that of the Queen of England. However, Rowling recently revealed in an interview with a student magazine of the University of Edinburgh in the UK that before she became famous, her life was once in poverty. In extreme depression and despair, she once considered suicide, but she is receiving psychological counseling. Finally, I got through the most difficult days in my life and headed towards today’s success. Rowling gave up suicidal thoughts for her daughter. In 1994, she had just divorced her first husband, Portuguese journalist George Arantes, and lived alone with her young daughter Jessica in a narrow bungalow in Edinburgh. in life. Rowling was unemployed at the time, and her unemployment benefit was just enough to cover the rent, and a friend of Rowling helped pay the £600 rent deposit. Rowling was desperate and wrote her first Harry Potter novel in that cramped bungalow.

The Harry Potter series has been translated into 62 kinds of texts and has sold more than 300 million copies worldwide. Rowling's net worth has also surged to 500 million pounds. Rowling remarried in 2001 and gave birth to two more children. The 44-year-old Rowling wears more and more sexy clothes every time she attends public events. This modern Cinderella seems to still be creating her own legend. After the British female writer JK Rowling divorced her husband, she took her children to live with relatives in the countryside, relying on government relief funds to live in poverty. But it took her more than two years to write "Harry Potter" and in less than five years she became the first billionaire in human history to rely on writing. During the two years when she wrote the book, she had no income. However, after her book sold well, she not only became a billionaire, but in the days to come, the publisher would pay JK every time it was reprinted and published. - Rowling’s huge royalties, even after she is no longer alive, her descendants will still benefit from this. Author's career: Rowling's writing career began when she wrote the first story "Rabbit" when she was 6 years old. The protagonist is a rabbit named Rabbit. He had measles and his friends came to see him, including a giant bee named Miss Bee. "Harry Potter" series Rowling has loved writing and telling stories since she was a child. The story of Harry began to be conceived in 1990. By Joanne Catherine Rowling

From Manchester to London in the summer of 1990. The train was moving very slowly, "It looks like it's going to be late." Luo Linkuo sat and looked out the window boredly. She had not had an easy weekend. She had just visited her boyfriend from Manchester and spent some time looking for a house, hoping to live closer to him so she wouldn't have to travel between places every weekend. Suddenly, the image of an 11-year-old boy named Harry Potter with messy black hair, green eyes, and a pair of round glasses jumped into Rowling's mind. "He was about to take the train to a magic boarding school. Before that, he didn't know he could do magic. As soon as he appeared on the scene, he lost his parents." At this time, Rowling seemed to be under a spell. She quietly said Sit there and let your imagination run wild, the details of the story coming to you like the hundreds of messenger owls at Hogwarts boarding school. The train was still moving forward slowly, the rotating wheels kept making clanging sounds, and the scenery of the British countryside in the summer outside the train window was panoramic. Harry Potter's friends also popped out of Rowling's mind one by one. A lot of pictures were swirling in her mind. She also saw a mysterious castle - Hogwarts Boarding School. "This castle must be in Scotland, a place far away from the hustle and bustle of the city." In fact, Rowling's parents fell in love at first sight on the train to Scotland. There are now two versions of the inspiration: 1. When the 24-year-old was on a train journey to London, a thin, black-haired little wizard wearing glasses kept smiling at her outside the car window. (See the author's introduction to the novel) 2. When she was 24 years old, she was on a train journey to London. The train stopped due to a breakdown. There was a herd of cows on the grass outside the train, and inspiration suddenly burst out. (Rowling told reporters in an interview) Rowling introduced this story of a boy named Harry Potter to the world. Thus, Harry Potter was born - a 10-year-old boy with a thin stature, black messy hair, bright green eyes, wearing round glasses, and a thin, lightning-shaped scar on his forehead... Harry Potter has become a popular fairy tale character all over the world. The works of Joanne Catherine Rowling

Her first book "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" was written for 5 years, during which time she returned to Edinburgh from Portugal . Because her house was small and cold, Rowling often went to a cafe near her home. According to Rowling, she liked the atmosphere of the cafe. She put her daughter on the stroller by the table and wrote the story of Harry Potter on small pieces of paper amidst her daughter's noise. After the story was written, Rowling submitted several manuscripts but was rejected. However, her efforts finally paid off.

After Bloomsbury, a small printer, took over the printing rights, the fairy tale attracted much attention as soon as it was published and received rave reviews, including the British National Book Award for Children's Fiction and the Smarty Book Gold Medal Award. Her life was turned upside down. Change, she herself became the third richest woman in the UK. J.K. Rowling has indeed created a myth in the history of publishing. To date, his seven-part "Harry Potter" series has been translated into more than 60 languages, and has sold more than 300 million copies in more than 200 countries and regions. And she herself has become one of the richest women in Great Britain with huge royalties, with assets exceeding the Queen of England and reaching US$1 billion. On July 21, 2007, the last novel in the Harry Potter series, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", was released, bringing an end to this series of novels.

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The series of children’s novels with the boy Harry Potter as the protagonist have been launched one after another, and have repeatedly entered bestseller lists around the world, thus becoming the world’s current The most famous children's writer in the world. In 1998, Rowling was selected as the best writer of the year by "Bookseller" magazine; in 1999, she was named the winner of the British Book Award of the Year. In 2001, she won the Hugo Award for the fourth Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." On October 19, 2010, Rowling was awarded the first Hans Christian Andersen Prize for Literature at a ceremony held in Odense, Denmark. . [1] On October 20, 2010, the British National Magazine Company released a list of the 100 most influential women in the country selected by the editors of the most authoritative British magazines. Rowling beat Beckham's wife Victoria and the Queen of England to win the ranking. Laurel crown. In the award speech, the jury stated that Rowling received this honor for her superb writing skills, perseverance in the pursuit of success, and philanthropic character. [2] On November 15, 2010, the rich list of the most profitable foreign writers in China was released. This list is the total royalties income of foreign writers in mainland China from 2000 to the present. J.K. Rowling’s 95.5 million yuan Annual royalty income tops the list. In 2010, she was named the top ten richest women in the UK. Agree0| Comment