When she was nine, Rowling moved near the Forest of Dean, which figures prominently in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," and spent the rest of her childhood there.
Her parents married when they were 20, and neither attended college: Her father was an aircraft engineer at Rolls Royce and her mother was a high school science technician. Rowling never had it as bad as Harry living with the Dursleys, but she described her teenage years as being filled with difficulty. When Rowling was 15, her mother was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. She died a decade later, before Rowling became a published author.
The author studied French at the University of Exeter, graduating in After graduating, Rowling worked at the research desk for Amnesty International, doing translation work. She found the work important — "I read hastily scribbled letters smuggled out of totalitarian regimes by men and women who were risking imprisonment to inform the outside world of what was happening to them," she said — but it didn't suit her, as she said in a later interview.
I was never paying much attention in meetings because I was usually scribbling bits of my latest stories in the margins of the pad, or choosing excellent names for the characters. Separately, she also started working on an adult novel that she never finished. The most traumatizing day of her life, Rowling said , was on New Year's Day in , when her mother died, when Rowling was Barely a day goes by when I do not think of her.
There would be so much to tell her, impossibly much. Fed up with secretary work, Rowling moved to Porto, Portugal, and taught English to students. There, she met and married Portuguese television journalist Jorge Arantes and had a child, Jessica — named after Jessica Mitford, one of her favorite authors — in July Rowling previously had a miscarriage, in , according to The Scotsman.
By November of , the couple had separated. In Porto, Rowling started a "book [that] was about a boy who found out he was a wizard and was sent off to wizard school.
She often brought along Jessica, who slept in a pram next to her. The experience helped define her political activism later in life. She frequently criticizes politicians who attempt to cut back on government welfare programs. She's also talked about how the "single mother" label followed her throughout her career, and became the president of Gingerbread, a year-old organization that supports single parents and their children.
Patronage was almost as hard to bear as stigmatization. It wasn't an easy period for her. In a interview with the Sunday Times, Rowling said she was severely depressed and sought professional help. Elsewhere, Rowling said that she used her experience of depression to describe the Dementors in her "Harry Potter" books.
Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. Rowling has attended therapy sessions to treat her depression at other times in life as well, she told The Guardian , like during the period where she became very famous very quickly.
I'm a big fan of it, it helped me a lot. Like many other authors, Rowling received a lot of rejection letters. Her book was accepted by Christopher Little, an "obscure London literary agent," according to the New Yorker. Twelve publishers rejected it. The publisher anticipated that boys may not want to read books written by a woman, so it suggested she pick a pen name with two initials. The "J" stands for Joanne, her real name.
She has no middle name, so she picked "K" for "Kathleen," which was the name of her paternal grandmother. By March of , , copies were sold in the UK. Then she bought her own apartment. It took another year for Scholastic to publish it in the United States. In October, Rowling announced that she signed a seven-figure deal with Warner Bros. By the time the movie series finished its run with "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2" in , it was the highest-grossing movie franchise of all time.
But it was still a risk for the movie studio: No one knew when or how the series would end, and Rowling made significant demands over details like licensing toys with fast food companies. Writing her next book, "Goblet of Fire," was an intense experience. At pages, it was twice as long as "Azkaban" yet written in the same one-year timespan. Her publishers coordinated to release the book simultaneously around the world for the first time, putting pressure on her to finish it on deadline. During that period, Rowling was also involved in making the movie version of the first "Harry Potter" book.
After the book's release, Rowling slowed down her writing pace. She told Bloomsbury she couldn't write her next book in just one year. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows became the fastest-selling book ever, selling 2.
The Harry Potter series is now published in 80 languages, and over million copies have been sold across the world. In J. In , J. Rowling has written a film script inspired by Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them , with the film due for release in Autumn In addition to J.
Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, a new play by Jack Thorne, she is also making her screenwriting debut with the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them , a further extension of the wizarding world, due for release in November Visit wizardingworld. Your School account is not valid for the United Kingdom site.
You have been logged out of your account. Rutger Bregman. Susanna Clarke. Reni Eddo-Lodge. Khaled Hosseini. Sarah J. Abdulrazak Gurnah. Kiley Reid. Sign in Create an account. Sub-total excluding delivery. Shop in. Books Authors Discover Connect. Early Years Primary Secondary. Featured authors View all authors. About Us Overview. Our Story. Missions and Values. Diversity and Inclusion. Environmental Policy. Her knowledge of Classics would one day come in handy for creating the spells in the Harry Potter series, some of which are based on Latin.
Her course included a year in Paris. After her degree, she moved to London and worked in a series of jobs, including one as a researcher at Amnesty International. Over the next five years, she began to map out all seven books of the series. She wrote mostly in longhand and gradually built up a mass of notes, many of which were scribbled on odd scraps of paper. Taking her notes with her, she moved to northern Portugal to teach English as a foreign language, married Jorge Arantes in and had a daughter, Jessica, in Having completed the full manuscript, she sent the first three chapters to a number of literary agents, one of whom wrote back asking to see the rest of it.
Six further titles followed in the Harry Potter series, each achieving record-breaking success. In , the film adaptation of the first book was released by Warner Bros. In , J. Also in , J. Under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, J. Rowling also writes crime novels, featuring private detective Cormoran Strike. The fifth book, Troubled Blood is now out and was also an instant bestseller.
Rowling collaborated with playwright Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany on an original new story for the stage. Rowling made her screenwriting debut with the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them , a further extension of the Wizarding World, which was released to critical acclaim in November This was the first in a series of new adventures featuring Magizoologist Newt Scamander and set before the time of Harry Potter. In March , J.
Rowling and Wizarding World partners launched the Harry Potter At Home initiative to entertain children stuck at home during the Covid pandemic with the first Harry Potter book read aloud by celebrities on video, and made available for free through audiobook and ebook streaming. In May , J. Rowling has been married to Dr Neil Murray since They live in Edinburgh with their son, David born and daughter, Mackenzie born Lumos sheds light on the root causes of family separation — poverty, conflict and discrimination — and demonstrates that children can safely be united with loving families that help them thrive.
The Anne Rowling Clinic was founded by a donation from J.
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