J.K Rowling was born in Chipping Sodbury General Hospital on Saturday July 31st 1965. Her interest in writing started at a very early age, when she was nearly six years old. Her first book she ever wrote was called Rabbit and was about a rabbit who was sick and all his friends came to visit him. From that tender age onwards she has held her interest in writing. J.K Rowling had lived with her mother Ann (who died in 1990) her father Peter and her sister Di. She had moved house twice while growing up (which must have given her great life experience, which is priceless in writing) At first she lived in Yate, from there they moved to Winterbourne. There, she would play with her sister and two other children whose last names were Potter. After that the family moved to the countryside (Tutshill to be exact). She hated her school there because her teacher disliked and picked on her. After surviving through Tutshill Primary School for three years she went to Wyedean Comprehensive School. Her favourite subject was English, but she enjoyed French also. At lunch time J.K Rowling and her two friends would share stories with each other. Normally involving themselves doing heroic and extraordinary things. Joanne was made Head Girl in her final year but she never done anything out of the ordinary with it.
After she completed Comprehensive school she went straight to Exeter University, where she studied French and Philosophy among other things. Joanne (J.K) now admits that going there was a “big mistake”. After University Joanne got a job as a secretary but was rather disorganised. Normally at meetings she would be jotting ideas for stories rather than taking notes. Finally when she was 26, she quit the secretary job and took a career teaching English as a foreign language. She loved to read, write and teach English and in her free time she would write stories. Normally these stories were based in other worlds and involved some type of magic.
It was during this stage of her life that she came up with the idea of a boy whose parents had been killed tragically and he had been sent to live with his Aunt and Uncle. At the age of 11 he discovered that he was a wizard and was sent to a wizarding school, from here he discovered an entire wizard world.
After she left her English teaching, she went to Edinburgh to live with her new-born daughter Jessica….
From then on everything is a blur.
A year after J.K Rowling finished the first Harry Potter book she sent it to Christopher Little, who then sent it on to Bloomsbury. Bloomsbury paid her an undisclosed sum of money to quit teaching French in Edinburgh and to start writing full time.
She is now currently an accomplished writer with her 6 books published in over 30 languages and has sold over 100 million copies worldwide. She is also still a single mother and recently donated £500,000 to a single mothers trust. Also her sister Di is now happily married to a chef.
Would you like to write to J.K. Rowling? Here's the address in which you can:
From the UK and Europe write to:
J.K Rowling,
C/O Bloomsbury Publishing,
38 Soho Square,
London,
W1V 5DF,
England.
From the United Stated and Canada write to:
J.K Rowling,
C/O Scholastic Books,
555 Broadway,
New York, NY 10012,
U.S.A
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J.K Rowling was born in Chipping Sodbury General Hospital on Saturday July 31st 1965. Her interest in writing started at a very early age, when she was nearly six years old. Her first book she ever wrote was called Rabbit and was about a rabbit who was sick and all his friends came to visit him. From that tender age onwards she has held her interest in writing. J.K Rowling had lived with her mother Ann (who died in 1990) her father Peter and her sister Di. She had moved house twice while growing up (which must have given her great life experience, which is priceless in writing) At first she lived in Yate, from there they moved to Winterbourne. There, she would play with her sister and two other children whose last names were Potter. After that the family moved to the countryside (Tutshill to be exact). She hated her school there because her teacher disliked and picked on her. After surviving through Tutshill Primary School for three years she went to Wyedean Comprehensive School. Her favourite subject was English, but she enjoyed French also. At lunch time J.K Rowling and her two friends would share stories with each other. Normally involving themselves doing heroic and extraordinary things. Joanne was made Head Girl in her final year but she never done anything out of the ordinary with it.