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Book Info >> J.K. Rowling
This
was an excellent biography that I found at scholastic.com.
"The idea that we could have a child who
escapes from the confines of the adult world and goes somewhere
where he has power, both literally and metaphorically, really
appealed to me."
"Like that of her own character, Harry Potter, J.K.
Rowling's life has the luster of a fairy tale. Divorced, living on
public assistance in a tiny Edinburgh flat with her infant daughter,
Rowling wrote Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone at a table in a
café during her daughter's naps — and it was Harry Potter that
rescued her. First, the Scottish Arts Council gave her a grant to
finish the book. After its sale to Bloomsbury (UK) and Scholastic
Books, the accolades began to pile up. Harry Potter won The British
Book Awards Children's Book of the Year, and the Smarties Prize, and
rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic. Book rights have been
sold to England, France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Greece, Finland,
Denmark, Spain and Sweden. A graduate of Exeter University, a
teacher, and then an unemployed single parent, Rowling wrote Harry
Potter when "I was very low, and I had to achieve something.
Without the challenge, I would have gone stark raving mad." But
Rowling has always written; her first book was called
"Rabbit." "I was about six, and I haven't stopped
scribbling since." For Rowling, the change in her fortunes has
been slightly bewildering. But her daughter has no doubt about her
mother's new career: when asked what mommies do, she replies without
hesitation, "Mommies write!""