Jk Rowling

Although she writes under the pen name J. K. Rowling her name when her first off Harry tinker book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. Her publisher Bloomsbury feared that the target audience of five-year- aged(prenominal) boys might be reluctant to buy books written by a female author, and requested that she use two signs, rather than reveal her first name. Born on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England She attended St Michaels Primary School. Her headmaster, Alfred Dunn, has been suggested as the inspiration for the Harry Potter headmaster Albus Dumbledore. She attended secondary direct at Wyedean School and College.Rowling has said of her adolescence, Hermione A bookish, know-it-all Harry Potter character is loosely based on me. Shes a caricature of me when I was eleven, which Im not in particular proud of. Rowling read for a BA in French and Classics at the University of Exeter, and after a year of study in Paris, she moved to capital of the United Kingdom to work as a researcher and bilingual secretary for forgiveness International. In 1990, while she was on a train trip from Manchester to London, the head for a story of a young boy attending a school of wizardry came fully formed into her mind.She told The Boston Globe that I really dont know where the idea came from. It started with Harry, because all these characters and situations came flooding into my head. Rowling then moved to Porto, Portugal to teach English as a foreign language. 25 darn there, on 16 October 1992, she married Portuguese television journalist Jorge Arantes. Their child, Jessica Isabel Rowling Arantes was born(p) on 27 July 1993 in Portugal. 36 They separated in November 1993. 36HYPERLINK l cite_note-3637In celestial latitude 1993, Rowling and her daughter moved to be near her sister in Edinburgh, Scotland. 18 During this finish Rowling was diagnosed with clinical depression, and contemplated suicide. 38 It was the feeling of her illness which brought her the idea of Dementors, soul-sucking creatures introduced in the third book. 39 In 1995, Rowling finished her manuscript for Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone on an old manual typewriter. The book was submitted to twelve publishing kins, all of which rejected the manuscript. 36 A year later she was finally given the green light (and a ? 1500 advance) by editor Barry Cunningham from Bloomsbury, a small British publishing house in London, England.Soon after, in 1997, Rowling received an ? 8000 grant from the Scottish Arts Council to change her to continue writing. 49 The following spring, an auction was held in the United States for the rights to publish the novel, and was won by Scholastic Inc. , for $105,000. In June 1997, Bloomsbury published Philosophers Stone with an initial print-run of 1000 copies. Five months later, the book won its first award, a go up Smarties harbor Prize. In February, the novel won the prestigious British Book Award for Childrens Book of the Year, and later, the Childrens Book Award.