Joanne Rowling was born on 31July 0, 965 in Yate, northeast of Bristol, South Gloucestershire, England. When Rowling was 23 months old, her sister Diane was born in their home. When Rowling was four years old, her family moved to nearby Winterbourne Village, where she attended St Michael's Primary School. At the age of nine, her family moved to Tusl near Chepstow, South Wales. She goes to middle school in Wyedean school and college. Rowling is good at languages, but not at sports and math. There are many places, things and people mentioned by the Welsh in Harry Potter, which may be because of her time in Chepstow.
19901February, Rowling's mother died in a struggle with multiple sclerosis for 10 years. Rowling commented, "I was writing Harry Potter when my mother died. I never told her about Harry Potter.
After studying French and classical literature at Exeter University (she applied to Oxford University but was rejected), after studying in Paris for one year, she moved to London and worked as a researcher and bilingual secretary at Amnesty International. During this period, when she was on a four-hour delayed train trip between Manchester and London, she had an idea about the story of a little boy entering a magic school. When she arrived at the apartment at the intersection of clapham, she immediately began to write.
Rowling then moved to Porto, Portugal, to teach English as a foreign language. There, she married Jorge Arantes, a Portuguese TV reporter, on 16 10/992. They have a child, Jessica, named after Jessica mitford, Rowling's heroine. They divorced in 1993. In that quarrel, George kicked her out of the house.
19941February, Rowling and her daughter moved to Edinburgh, Scotland, near Rowling's sister. She lost her job, lived on state welfare and finished her first novel. As long as she can put Jessica to sleep, she does a lot of work in the elephant house cafe. There are rumors that she is writing in a local cafe to escape from her unheated apartment, but in an interview with 200 1 BBC, Rowling commented: "I am not stupid enough to rent an unheated apartment in Edinburgh in the dead of winter. It has heating. " J.K. Rowling, a British female writer, whose real name is Joanne Catherine Rowling.
At the age of 24, during Rowling's train journey from Manchester to London, a thin dark-haired wizard with glasses kept smiling at her outside the window. His sudden intrusion into her life gave her the idea of writing Harry Potter. Although she didn't have paper and pen at that time, she began to imagine crazily and finally pushed the boy story Harry Potter to the world. Harry Potter was born in this way-a boy of 10 years old, thin and thin, with black unkempt hair, bright green eyes, round glasses, and a scar as long as lightning on his forehead ... Harry Potter became a fairy tale figure popular all over the world.