JK Rowling was born on July 31, 1965 in Chipping Sothebury, Gloucestershire, England. Her sister, Dee, was born two years later. Rowling loved telling stories from an early age and wrote her first fairy tale when she was 5 or 6 years old - it was a tale about a rabbit named Rabbit who had measles and was visited by friends with a giant bee named Miss Bee. She moved twice as a child. Both times to towns near Bristol: first to Eith, then to Winterbourne. The family moved again when she was nine years old - to Tutshill. She visited primary school in Tutshill and high school and Viedine.
At that time she was quiet, freckled, nearsighted and terribly unathletic. Her favorite subjects are English and other languages. She used to tell stories to her friends - where they all performed brave and heroic deeds that they would not dare to do in real life.
She went to Exeter University straight after school and studied French, at the urging of her parents, who said she could make a career as a bilingual secretary. She spent several years studying at the university and working as “the worst secretary in the world.”
In 1991, at the age of 26, she went to Portugal to teach English. She says she liked it. She gave lessons in the afternoon and evening, and composed in the morning. During this time, she began working on her third novel (the first two had been dismissed as "very bad"). A new book was about a boy who discovered that he was a wizard and ended up in magic school. In Portugal she met and married a Portuguese journalist. Their daughter, Jessica, was born in 1993.
After the divorce, Rowling and her daughter moved to Edinburgh, Scotland, closer to her younger sister Dee. Rowling set a goal to complete the Harry novel before starting work as a teacher. French, and, of course, try to publish it. She wrote on the cafe table while Jessica was sleeping. The Scottish Arts Council gave her a grant to complete the book and, after a number of rejections, she eventually sold Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone to Bloomsbury (UK) for US$4,000.
A few months later, Arthur A. Levin/Teaching Literature buys the American rights to the book for enough money to enable her to quit teaching. The book was published in the UK in June 1997 (at the time of writing the first edition of this book has sold £12,000/$20,000). At that moment the confession came. Harry Potter wins the British Book of the Year and Smarties Prize. Retitled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the book was published in the United States in September 1998. Next, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Secret Room"is published in the UK in July 1998, and in the US in June 1999. The third book, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, was published in the UK in July 1999, and in the US in September 1999.
In 1999, Rowling became an international literary sensation when the first three books in the Harry Potter series reached the top 3 positions on the New York Times bestseller list - achieving similar success in the UK. In the summer of 2000, the first three books had sold over 35 million copies, in 35 languages, for a total of approximately 0 million. In July 2000, the first printing of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was 5.3 million copies with advance orders of over 1.8 million. Rowling planned a seven-book series detailing each year of Harry Potter's life at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Ultimately, this is what happened. Rowling says she wrote Harry Potter when “I was feeling really bad and needed to achieve something. Without the challenge, I would have gone crazy.” Now the story about Harry Potter and his fight against the Dark Lord is one of the most popular children's books.
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"Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger and a snake surrounding a large letter "H"."
Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!
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"Harry Potter" is a popular series of novels by the English writer J. K. Rowling. Each of the novels describes one year in the life of the main character - a boy wizard named Harry Potter. All seven parts became bestsellers and were translated into many languages, including Russian. The first part was published on June 26, 1997, and the last, seventh, part went on sale on July 21, 2007. The total circulation of the books was more than 325 million copies (in 64 languages).
List of books:
1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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