JK Rowling or Joanne Kathleen Rowling was born in July 1965 at Yate General Hospital in England. She grew up in Chepstow Gwent where she went to Wyedean comprehensive. She left Chepstow when she went to Exeter University where earned a degree in French and Classics. A year of the course was spent in Paris. Once graduated she moved to London to work as a researcher at Amnesty International amongst other jobs but it wasn’t until a delayed train journey from Manchester to Kings Cross where she starting writing the Harry Potter series. Over the following 5 years Joanne outlined the plots for each book and began to write the first novel.
Her next port of call was in northern Portugal where she taught English as a foreign language. In 1992 she married and gave birth to her first daughter who she named Jessica a year later. Sadly the marriage didn’t last so she and Jessica returned to the UK and lived in Edinburgh which is where she finished the first book Harry Potter & the Philosophers Stone. Jo then met and married Dr Neil Murray in 2001 and had two more children, David born in 2003 and Mackenzie followed in 2005.
Jo completed her first book Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in 1995. She sent the manuscript off to several prospective agents without much luck. Christopher Little became her second agent who sent the manuscript off to Bloomsbury. After being rejected by about 8 publishers, Bloomsbury offered Joanne a £2,500 advance for its publication. The first publication was on 30 June 1997. It was released with the title of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone on the USA on September the first in 1998. It received very positive reviews and before long Jo was being compared to Roald Dahl’s work.
The second book titled Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was originally published in the UK on 2 July 1998 and in the USA on 2 June 1999. A year later Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was then published on 8 July 1999 and in the USA on 8 September 1999. Next up in the series was Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire which got published on 8 July 2000 in both the UK and USA. Next up was Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix which became the longest book in the series. It was published worldwide in English on 21 June 2003. The sixth book HP and the Half-Blood Prince was published in July of 05, which sold 9 million copies in the first 24 hours of its worldwide release. The final novel HP and the Deathly Hallows was published on 21 July 2007. This final book sold over 11 million copies in the day of release, 2.7 million copies in were sold in the UK and 8.3 million were sold in the US.
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