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Shvoong Home>Books>Biographies>About J.K.Rowling Review

About J.K.Rowling

Book Review   by:Dasenka     Original Author: Dasenka
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Parents of well known author J.K.Rowling met in the train in Scotland.They were both Londoners. A year later they married.Her mother give a birth when she was twenty and here the story of J.K.Rowling begins.Her sister Di was born a year and 11 months later.They were best friends and Jo was telling her sister lots of stories among their fights (like all sister have).When Rowling was 4 they moved to Winterbourne, little place near Bristol.There were lots of children and among them brother and sister with the last name Potter. Rowling allways liked their last name.She enoyed the school cause there was lots of pottery making,drawing and story writing.When she was about nine they moved to Tutshill,small village in Wales.The move coincident almost with the dead of her favourite grandmother Kathleen and she took her name for an extra inicial.She didn't like this school at all.They were only sitting and looking at the blackboard.With 11 years she went to secondary school and met Sean Harris to whom is dedicated Chamber of secrets. He was her first best friend and he believed in her when she told him that she wants to be a writer.The worst thing that happened when she was a teenage, 15 years old was illness of her mother.It was a big shock for Jo.In 1983 Jo left school and go to study at University of Exeter,England. After leaving university she was working in London.When she was in train she made up a story about a little boy with dark hear and green eyes.
That was the beginning of Harry Potter.She start writing Philosopher's Stone,move to Manchester and start writing more and more.Then in 1990 her mother died. It was a terrible time for her,her sister and father.They were devastated cause her mother was only 45 years old.Nine months later Jo moved to Portugal where she was teaching English.She met and married a Portuguese and her daughter Jessica was born.Jessica and Jo arrived to Edinburgh for Christmas 1994,where her sister was living.She was writing the book like mad and give everything of herself to finish and publish the book.She had to type the whole book by herself. Finally it was done. In August 1996 Bloomsbury published the book and the Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone become a bestseller.You know what happened next, more books about Harry Potter:Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets,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.
Published: July 24, 2007   
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