Sunday, September 18, 2011

JK Rowling: The mother of Harry Potter

Are you a Harry Potter fan?. If yes, surely you've already knew its great author. She is Joanne Kathleen Rowling or commonly called as JK. Rowling. The Harry Potter is the best seller book around the world which already translated to over 35 languages across the world. The Harry Potter the movie has also got the succeed followed the achievement of the book series.

Although has reached its succeed but some of them (The Harry Potter fans) didn't know how the book was written by its author exactly. So who is JK Rowling actually?. Please read the following story to get closer the Harry Potter's mother.


The JK Rowling's childhood

JK Rowling was born in the summer of 1965. She was born at Yate General Hospital, Chipping Sodbury, near to Brisbol England in July, 31, 1965. Her father named Peter James Rowling and her father named Anne Rowling. They were Londoners. Both were met in Scotland when they were eighteen and they got married a year later. Her mother gave her birth when she was twenty. Jo has a little sister named Dianne. She usually call her sister as Di. Jo love to writing when she still young and she used to told her imaginary stories to her sister and often the stories became games in which they both played regular characters.

When Jo was four she and her family went for Winterbourne area. The little Jo studied at St Michael's School and she very enjoyed to spent her days with her friends over there caused of  relaxed environment. However, Her parents had always harboured a dream of living in the country, and around her ninth birthday they moved for the last time, to Tutshill, a small village just outside Chepstow, in Wales. In her secondary school Jo met Sean Harris-her best friend. One day Jo told Sean about her huge ambition to become a writer and Sean thought that she will be a great writer.

Jo left school in 1983 and went to the south coast of England to study French at the University of Exeter.

JK Rowling and Harry Potter

After finished her study Jo worked as a secretary at Amnesty International, the organisation that campaigns against human rights abuses all over the world. In 1990 Jo left her job for moved to Manchester together with her boyfriend. The idea of Harry Potter came when she return to London in a crowded train by her own. While waiting for delayed train she sat and imagined about the station environment. That's why in a chapter of Harry Potter contained a scene in train station as the background.

Jo continued to writing “Philosopher's Stone" almost every evening. Jo back to Manchester with manuscript on her hands.

December, 30 1990 was sadly moment for Jo; Her mother was died in just forty five. It was terrible moment for Jo and made her got frustrated.

9 months after her mother dead Jo Moved to Portugal and worked as a teacher in a language institute. Jo bring the Harry Potter manuscript dan continued to writing the rests of the book. In the first week and Portugal jo wrote her favorite chapter in Philosopher's Stone, The Mirror of Erised.

In Portugal Jo met a Portuguese man and married with him. Jo has a daughter named Jessica. Although her marriage doesn't not work out but, Jessica is the best thing in her life. Jo and her little daughter arrived in Edinburgh, where her sister Di was living, just in time for Christmas 1993.

Jo started to teaching again and her full time job with a little daughter was a difficult situation. But, Jo keep writing her book and finally she finished her first book “Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone” in 1995. Jo covered the first three chapters in a nice plastic folder and set them off to an agent, who returned them so fast they must have been sent back the same day they arrived.

It took a year for her new agent, Christopher, to find a publisher. Some publishers refused her book. And finally in August 1996 Christopher phoned her to told that Bloomsbury had 'made an offer.' Jo had hung up and screamed. Jessica who was sitting while enjoying her tea looked thoroughly scared.

References: Good Book, JK.Rowling's site, Wikipedia
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