Tuesday 4 May 2010

J.K.Rowling




Joanne Kathleen Rowling was born on July 31, 1965 in Yate, United Kingdom.Due to the work of his father, Peter, an engineer at Rolls-Royce company married to Anne, a Scottish French roots, his family had to move house several times in small children Joanne and Dianne, her younger sister also a novelist.After a brief stay in Yate, moved to Winterbourne, provided without departing from Bristol, environment in which they were created first memories of the imaginative child, who spent hours sharing dreams and fantasies with her sister. Early reader and writer, enthusiastic amateur to devour novels for adults, at age six devised a rabbit who had the honor of being the first hero in a story titled Rabbit.In Winterbourne girls made friends with the neighborhood, one of whom was called Ian Potter. Enjoys taking strange names for the protagonists and locations of his novels, many years later that name was borrowed Joanne to give life to his subject.
Upon graduating in Wyedean, Joanne K. Rowling enrolled at the University of Exeter, where, following the advice father, studied French in order to find after a good job as a bilingual secretary. With the titles of French language and literature still shining, he moved to the headquarters of Amnesty International in London for a research paper.After this brief period of training he began working as a secretary, but soon discovered that the order and the routine did not go with it. Several frustrating experiences in various companies, coupled with the sad demise of his mother, suffering from multiple sclerosis, was taken to leave it all at twenty-six and leave the country with the intention of teaching English abroad.Mother of a young girl and alone in a foreign country, in 1996, Joanne decided to return to Britain and settled in the Scottish city of Edinburgh, near her sister Dianne, where he arrived with the firm intention to finish and publish a novel about a as Harry Potter, children's character with magical powers, whose adventures had imagined a long time ago during an interminable train journey between Manchester and London.
The publication of his first book-signed with the initials J. K. advice of the publishers, fearing that the children did not want to read a book about a boy written by a woman, was a turning point in your life magical.Awarded the title of Officer of the British Empire and turned into the person who ranks third by volume gains in the country, according to a list of the prestigious Forbes magazine, Joanne tried to maintain their normal lifestyle.

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