Joanne Kathleen Rowling is a misrepresentation and is not her 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. Pen name: J.K. Rowling Nickname: Friends call her "JO", fans call her "JK", and friends call her "JAKE" when joking. Nickname: Her classmates sometimes tease her by calling her "Rolling Pin" and "Rolling Stone". Born: July 31, 1965, in Chipping Sodbury General Hospital, Gwent, England.

Family status

Parents: Father Peter is a retired manager of aircraft manufacturer Rolls-Royce, mother Ann is a laboratory technician, died of illness in 1990 Passed away 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 nursing and is now studying law in Edinburgh. Spouse: Rowling briefly married a still-unnamed Portuguese television news reporter in 1990; they divorced three years later following the birth of their daughter. In December 2001, he married an anesthesiologist named Neil Murray. In March 2003, they had a son named David, and in January 2005, they had a daughter. Family members: There is a daughter named Jessica, born in 1993 (with her ex-husband). Current husband, Neil, and their two children.

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 little 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.

Education

Graduated from Exeter University 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.

Debut novel

Her writing career began when she was 6 years old and wrote the story "Rabbit". The protagonist is a rabbit named Rabbit. He had measles and his friends came to see him, including a giant bee named Miss Bee.

Work experience

She started working as a secretary for a while. In 1991, at the age of 26, she went to Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, to teach children English as a second foreign language. Later, she taught French to children in Edinburgh. Later she lost her job and became a single mother relying on government assistance. Current residence: Lives with her daughter in Edinburgh, Scotland.

The author of "Harry Potter"

began to conceive of Harry's story in 1990. Her first book "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" took five years to write, and was followed by "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" and "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban". , "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows". During this time, she returned to Edinburgh from Portugal. In a coffee shop, she put her daughter on the stroller next to the table and wrote amidst her daughter's noise. When this first book was published by Bloomsbury in 1997, her life changed forever. She herself became the third richest woman in Britain.

New Book News: "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", the last novel in the "Harry Potter" magic series, will be officially released on July 21, 2007. From midnight to dawn on release day, author J.K. Rowling participates in readings and signings of new books. The book reading and subsequent signing will be held at London's Natural History Museum, the Associated Press reported. Harry Potter fans in the UK and Ireland can sign up on the websites of Academic Press and Bloomsbury Publishing, which are sponsoring the event. Approximately 1,700 winners will receive a free copy of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" signed by Rowling. The first batch of 500 lucky book fans randomly selected will be invited to participate in the reading of the new book. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" is the seventh book in the "Harry Potter" series. The author has revealed that two main characters will die in this book.

(In the end, it was Voldemort and Snape, and little Harry survived.) The "Harry Potter" series of books has been translated into 64 languages, with more than 325 million copies sold worldwide.

Also published are the Harry Potter spin-off books "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", "The Tales of Beedle the Bard", and "The Magic of Quidditch" (all mentioned in the original books)