Her career showcases an excellent evolution of captivating creativity combined with an outstanding style. Full nameģ1 July 1965 (Yate, Gloucestershire, England)įantasy, Drama, Young Adult, Fiction, Crime Fiction Rowling, Joanne Rowling has been one of the most successful fiction writers of all time. Under the pen name Robert Galbraith or J. If you're interested in her fascinating journey, follow along to get a rare glimpse into her life. She's now among the wealthiest authors in history with an approximate net worth of $1 billion, as of 2022. Rowling studied French and graduated from Exeter in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. She grew up in Gloucestershire in South West England. Rowling was born on 31 July 1965 at Yate General Hospital near Bristol. She's a global brand with numerous translations of her writing. Rowling for her astonishingly popular Harry Potter novels, isn't just famous in her native Britain or the West. Rowling kept going despite facing failure at several stages of her life and eventually climbed the ladder to success.Joanne Kathleen Rowling, known worldwide as J. It later won the British Book Award for Children’s Book of the year and the rest as they say is history. The book saw an overwhelming response and five months later it won its first award, a Nestle Smarties Book Prize. However, she did not lose hope and finally got a positive response from Barry Cunningham from Bloomsbury who also suggested Rowling to take up a job as he saw little scope of her making money through the book. She submitted it to as many as twelve publishing houses only to get rejected by them. In 1995, Rowling finished the manuscript of her first novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. She signed up for welfare benefits and began a teacher training course in August 1995 and also continued to write. All this gave her the time to focus on her writing. However, interestingly she described her failure to be liberating. She was diagnosed with clinical depression during this time and wanted to commit suicide as she saw no hope. She was emotionally drained and saw herself as a failure in life. She was now divorced, jobless and mother of a dependent child. Things were tough for Rowlings during her marriage as well as after divorce. It is said that Rowling suffered domestic abuse during her marriage. The birth of their child was followed by their separation in November 1993. Rowling gave birth to a beautiful girl child in July 1993 and named her Jessica Isabel Rowling Arantes. She married a Portuguese journalist Jorge Arantes in 1992. She taught at night and wrote during the day time. She soon moved to Porto, Portugal where she began working as a teacher. She began writing on it and after her mother’s death later that year she channelized all her energy towards her writing. The idea of writing about a young boy attending a wizardry school came to her mind in 1990. After some time, Rowling decided to move to Manchester with her then boyfriend. In 1988 she wrote a short essay, “What was the Name of that Nymph Again? Or Greek and Roman Studies Recalled” that was published in the University of Exeter’s journal, Pegasus. After graduating from the University of Exeter in the year 1986, she moved to London where she took up the role of a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International. in French and Classics at the University of Exeter. Rowling’s teenage years were emotionally disturbing because of her strained relationship with her father and her mother’s prolonged illness. Her writing interested Rowling and she read all her books. Rowling was highly inspired by Mitford who became her role model in no time. During her teenage, she received a copy of Hons and Rebels, the autobiography of Jessica Mitford. Her father, Peter James Rowling was a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer and her mother Anne Rowling was a science technician.Īs a child, Rowling was fond of fantasy stories and often read them to her younger sister Dianne. Rowling was born on the 31 st of July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England. Her’s is a story that shall certainly inspire you to keep working hard and never give up as success comes to those who keep trying and keep going despite failing repeatedly. However, things were not always this smooth for Rowling. So immense was the popularity of these books that these were soon incorporated into films. The Harry Porter series, that brought her to the limelight, created history by becoming the best-selling book series worldwide. She has received numerous awards for her work that has been appreciated world over. Rowling, the author of the super successful fantasy series, the Harry Porter, is a British novelist, screenwriter, television and film producer and philanthropist.
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