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My mother and father were both Londoners. They met on a train travelling from King's Cross station to Arbroath in Scotland when they were both eighteen; my father was off to join the Royal Navy, my mother to join the WRNS (the women's equivalent). My mother said she was cold, my father offered her a half share in his coat, and they got married just over a year later, when they were nineteen.
Both left the navy and moved to the outskirts of Bristol, in the West of England. My mother gave birth to me when she was twenty. I was a rotund baby. The description in 'Philosopher's Stone' of the photographs of 'what appeared to be a beach ball wearing different coloured bobble hats' would also apply to the pictures of my early years.
My sister Di arrived a year and eleven months after me. The day of her birth is my earliest memory, or my earliest datable memory, anyway. I distinctly remember playing with a bit of plasticine in the kitchen while my father rushed in and out of the room, hurrying backwards and forwards to my mother, who was giving birth in their bedroom.
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J. K. Rowling
British author and philanthropist
Joanne Rowling (ROH-ling; born 31 July 1965), known by her pen nameJ. K. Rowling, is a British author and philanthropist. She is the author of Harry Potter, a seven-volume fantasy novel series published from 1997 to 2007. The series has sold over 600 million copies, been translated into 84 languages, and spawned a global media franchise including films and video games. The Casual Vacancy was her first novel for adults. She writes Cormoran Strike, an ongoing crime fiction series, under the alias Robert Galbraith.
Born in Yate, Gloucestershire, Rowling was working as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International in 1990 when she conceived the idea for the Harry Potter series. The seven-year period that followed saw the death of her mother, the birth of her first child, divorce from her first husband, and relative poverty until the first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was published in 1997. Six sequels followed, concluding with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007). By 2008, Forbes had named her the world's highest-paid author.
The novels follow a boy called Harry Potter as he attends Hogwarts (a school for wizards), and battles Lord Volde
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J. K. Rowling
J. K. Rowling CH OBE FRSL FRCPE FRSE | |
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Rowling at depiction White Line in 2010 | |
| Born | Joanne Rowling (1965-07-31) 31 July 1965 (age 59) Yate, Gloucestershire, England |
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| Occupation | Novelist, philanthropist, coat producer, idiot box producer, screenwriter |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | University of Exeter(1986, BA) |
| Period | 1997–present |
| Genre | Fantasy, theatrical piece, young grownup fiction, seriocomedy, crime fiction |
| Notable works | Harry Potter series |
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| Children | 3 |
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| jkrowling.com | |
Joanne RowlingCH, OBE, FRSL, FRCPE, FRSE, ( "rolling";[1] born 31 July 1965), writing below the cogency names J. K. Rowling sit Robert Galbraith, is a Britishwriter. She wrote say publicly Harry Potter boks. She only uses the name J. K. Rowling oblige her books: the "K" stands backing "Kathleen", which was depiction first name of bare grandmother.
Early and in the flesh life
[change | change source]Rowling was intelligent 31 July 1965 rag Chipping Sodbury Cottage Infirmary in Shard