J.K. Rowling
J.K. (Joanne Kathleen) Rowling has written fiction since she was a child.Born in 1965, she grew up in Chepstow and wrote and wrote her first "book" at the age of six - a story about a rabbit called Rabbit.She studied French and Classics at Exeter University, then moved to London to work at Amnesty International, and then to Portugal to teach English as a foreign language, before settling in Edinburgh.
The idea for Harry Potter occurred to her on the train from Manchester to London, where she says Harry Potter 'just strolled into my head fully formed', and by the time she had arrived at King's Cross, many of the characters had taken shape. During the next five years she outlined the plots for each book and began writing the first in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, which was first published by Bloomsbury in 1997. The other Harry Potter titles:Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows followed.J.K. Rowling has also written two companion books, Qudditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, in aid of Comic Relief.
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The idea for Harry Potter occurred to her on the train from Manchester to London, where she says Harry Potter 'just strolled into my head fully formed', and by the time she had arrived at King's Cross, many of the characters had taken shape. During the next five years she outlined the plots for each book and began writing the first in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, which was first published by Bloomsbury in 1997. The other Harry Potter titles:Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows followed.J.K. Rowling has also written two companion books, Qudditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, in aid of Comic Relief.
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