Later on, she would move to London to work as a researcher and a bilingual secretary for International Amnesty. Rowling had gained some creative control on the films, reviewing all the scripts as well as acting as a producer on the final two-part instalment, Deathly Hallows. In response, a tweeter called Jude Callegari said that the author was Rowling. Her parents first met on a train departing from bound for in 1964. A film adaptation of was released on 16 November 2001, and on 15 November 2002. Sean Harris, her best friend in the , owned a turquoise which she says inspired a flying version that appeared in. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. She is also the author of The Casual Vacancy, a novel for adult readers, and the Strike crime series, written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. Harry and Ron find a paper in Hermione´s hand that the monster that attacked them was the Basilisk, a monster that petrifies whoever looks it in the eye. The Harry Potter series is now published in 80 languages, and over 500 million copies have been sold across the world. She lost her billionaire status after giving away much of her earnings to charity, but remains one of the wealthiest people in the world.
Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British,andbest known for writing the fantasy series. The books have won multiple awards, and sold more than 500 million copies, becoming the. They have also been the basis forover which Rowling had overall approval on the scripts and was a producer on the final films in the series. Born inGloucestershire, England, Rowling was working as a researcher and bilingual secretary for when she conceived the idea for the Harry Potter series while on a delayed train from to London in 1990. The seven-year period that followed saw the death of her mother, birth of her first child, divorce from her first husband and relative poverty until the in the series,was published in 1997. There were six sequels, of which the last,was released in 2007. Since then, Rowling has written five books for adult readers: 2012 and—under the Robert Galbraith—the novels 201320142015and 2018. She lost her billionaire status after giving away much of her earnings to charity, but remains one of the wealthiest people in the world. She is the United Kingdom's bestselling living author, with sales in excess of £238M. She has supported charities, includingandand launched jk rowling books own charity. Rowling, her name, before her remarriage, was Joanne Rowling. Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers asked that she use two initials rather than her full name. As she had no middle name, she chose K for Kathleen as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother. Following her remarriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. During the she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling and her entry in lists her name also as Joanne Kathleen Rowling. Life and career Birth and family Rowling's parents met on a train from. After Rowling used King's Cross as a gateway into the Wizarding World it became a popular tourist spot. Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling, a aircraft engineer, and Anne Rowling née Volanta science technician, on 31 July 1965 in, England, 10 miles 16 km northeast of. Her parents first met on a train departing from bound for in 1964. They married on 14 March 1965. One of her maternal great-grandfathers, Dugald Campbell, was Scottish, born in on the. Her mother's paternal grandfather, Louis Volant, was French, and was awarded the for exceptional bravery in defending the village of during the. Rowling originally believed he had won the during the war, as she said when she received it herself in 2009. Childhood Rowling's childhood home,Gloucestershire Rowling's sister Dianne was born at their home when Rowling was 23 months old. The family moved to the nearby village when Rowling was four. As a child, Rowling often wrote fantasy stories which she frequently read to her sister. Aged nine, Rowling moved to in the Gloucestershire village ofclose toWales. When she was a young teenager, her great-aunt gave her a copy of 's autobiography. Mitford became Rowling's heroine, and Rowling read all of her books. Rowling has said that her teenage years were unhappy. Her home life was complicated by her mother's diagnosis with and a strained relationship with her father, with whom she is not on speaking terms. Rowling later said that she based the character of on herself when she was eleven. Sean Harris, her best friend in theowned a turquoise which she says inspired a flying version that appeared in. Like many teenagers, she became interested in pop music, listening toand and adopted the look of the latter with back-combed hair and black eyeliner, a look that she would still sport when beginning university. Education As a child, Rowling attendeda school founded by and education reformer. Her headmaster at St Michael's, Alfred Dunn, has been suggested as the inspiration for the Harry Potter headmaster. She attended secondary school atwhere her mother worked in the science department. Rowling took in English, French and German, achieving two As and a B and was. In 1982, Rowling took the entrance exams for but was not accepted and earned a in French and at the. Rowling recalls doing little work, preferring to read and. After a year of study in Paris, Rowling graduated from Exeter in 1986. Inspiration and mother's death After working as a researcher and bilingual secretary in London forRowling moved with her then boyfriend to Manchester, where she worked at the Chamber of Commerce. When she had reached her flat, she began to write immediately. In December, Rowling's mother, Anne, died after ten years suffering from. Rowling was writing Harry Potter at the time and had never told her mother about it. Her mother's death heavily affected Rowling's writing, and she channelled her own feelings of loss by writing about Harry's own feelings of loss in greater detail in the first book. Marriage, divorce, and single parenthood Rowling moved to Porto to teach. An advertisement in led Rowling to move toPortugal, to teach. She taught at night and began writing in the day while listening to 's. After 18 months in Porto, she met Portuguese television journalist Jorge Arantes in a bar and found they shared an interest in. They married on 16 October 1992 and their child, Jessica Isabel Rowling Arantes named afterwas born on 27 July 1993 in Portugal. Rowling had previously suffered a. The couple separated on 17 November 1993. Biographers have suggested that Rowling suffered during her marriage, although the extent is unknown. In December 1993, Rowling and her then infant daughter moved toScotland, to be near Rowling's sister with three chapters of what would become Harry Potter in her suitcase. Seven years after graduating from university, Rowling saw herself as a failure. Her marriage had
