The trip delayed for four hours – but it turned out a life-changing four-hour wait for Rowling! For the next five years, Jo developed the stories that gave birth to the seven Harry Potter novels. She conceived the fundamental plot (the story of a boy studying at a school of wizardry) which would form the bases for her books while sitting on a train bound for London’s, King’s Cross station from Manchester. JK Rowling got her “Harry Potter” inspiration in 1990 the same year she lost her mother to multiple sclerosis. She later worked at the Chamber of Commerce in Manchester. Following her graduation in 1986, she moved to London where she worked as a secretary/researcher at Amnesty International. After high school, Rowling studied French and Classics at the University of Exeter in Devon, England.Īs a college student, she continued to read widely, accumulating a fine of £50 at her university’s library for overdue books outside her course of study. She read a lot as a child and came up with her first storybook at six. Her keen interest in writing started at a very young age. Michael’s Primary School in Winterbourne, and Wyedean Comprehensive School in Sedbury. Joanne grew up in Gloucestershire where she attended the St. The K stands for Kathleen, the name of her paternal grandfather. She only took up her second initial “K” to produce a masculine-sounding name on the advice of her first Harry Potter publisher who feared that her book targeted at a young-boys audience might not sell well under an obviously female author name. She is the first of the two daughters of Peter and Anne Rowling her younger sister is named Dianne. Joanne was born at the general hospital in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom. She was born Joanne Rowling on the 31st of July, 1965.
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Her ladder to financial success was her series of stories – the Harry Potter novels.Īs of 2019, the Harry Potter franchise which has become a global brand is worth up to $15 billion! The books have so far received up to 80 translations across the world either in part or in whole, with over 500 million copies sold! Meanwhile, it has garnered JK Rowling massive wealth, contributing the major part of her over $900 million net worth. Three decades later, the woman who managed to scribble down story notes at every spare time during the tough times, metamorphosed into the world’s richest writer/novelist. Around the 1990s, JK Rowling would have caved into poverty, were it not for state benefits.