J Rowling Biography

Biography is a British writer, screenwriter and film producer, most famous as the author of a series of novels about Harry Potter. Although the books of the writers are published under the pseudonym “J. Rowling ”, when the first book about Harry Potter was published, her name was just“ Joan Rowling ”. Anticipating that the target audience of boys may not want to read a book written by a woman, its publishers suggested that she use two initials, and not her full name.

Since she did not have an average name, for the pseudonym she chose the second initial to K - named after the paternal grandmother. She herself calls herself "Joe" English. Jo after the wedding, she sometimes used the name Joan Murray English in personal affairs. Joanne Murray. Also writes under the pseudonym Robert Gelbreite Robert Galbraith. When Joan was four years old, the family moved to the neighboring village of Winterburn.

Rowling studied at the elementary school of St. Michael, founded by the abolitionist William Wilberfors and the reformer of the education of Hannah Mor. As a child, Rowling often wrote fantastic stories that she, as a rule, read to her sister. Rowling studied in Viddin secondary school, where her mother worked in the science department. Rowling was the headman at school.

Before entering the university, she studied English, French and German, passing exams for two excellent grades and one good. In the year, Rowling did not go through the University of Oxford and entered the University of exeter, which graduated from the degree of bachelor in French and classical philology. After a year of study in Paris, Rowling graduated from exeter in the year, moved to London, starting to work as a secretary in the research department of the International Amnesty.

Leaving a job in the International Amnesty in London, Rowling and her young man decided to move to Manchester. In the year, when she was traveling on a train from Manchester to London, she originated the idea of ​​Harry Potter. In December of the same year, after ten years of multiple sclerosis, mother Rowling died. Seeing the announcement in The Guardian, Rowling moved to Portugal's port to teach English there.

She taught in the evenings, and in the afternoon she wrote, listening to Tchaikovsky's violin concert. In Portugal, Rowling met in a bar with television journalist Georges Arantim Port. Jorge ARANTES. They got married on October 16, and on July 27 a child was born, Jessica Isabelle Rowling Arantish in honor of Jessica Mitford. Previously, Rowling had a miscarriage.

Later the couple broke up. In December, Rowling with her daughter and three chapters of Harry Potter in a suitcase moved to Edinburgh Scotland to be near her sister. Rowling was in "despair" after her husband arrived in search of her and her daughter. She received the order to defend, and Arantish returned to Portugal, while Rowling filed for divorce in August. After the completion of her first novel in August, she entered the educational school of Edinburgh University, living at this time on benefits.

In the year, Rowling finished her manuscript of the novel Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. The book was sent to twelve publishers, but they all rejected the manuscript. A year later, she finally received green light and pounds of advance from editor Barry Cunningham from the Bloomsbury London Publishing House. Soon after, in the year, Rowling received a grant of 8 thousand pounds from Scottish Arts Council to continue to write.

In June, Bloomsbury published a “philosopher's stone” with an initial circulation in specimens, of which they were common among the libraries. The continuation of the first novel, Harry Potter and the Secret Room, was published in July. For him, Rowling again received the Smarties Prize. In December of the year, the third novel was released, Harry Potter and Prisoner of Azkaban, who also won the Smarties Awards, after which Rowling became the first person who received this award three times in a row.

Later, she withdrew the fourth novel about Harry Potter from the competition to give a chance to other books. In January, the “Prisoner of Azkaban” won the Whitbread Awards as “Children's Book of the Year”. The fourth book, Harry Potter and the Fire Cup, was released simultaneously in the UK and the USA on July 8 and broke sales records in both countries. Three million copies of the book were sold in the United States in the first 48 hours, which broke all sales records.

During this break, rumors were published in the press that Rowling began a creative crisis, which she warmly denied. Rowling later admitted that writing this book required great efforts from it. The sixth book, Harry Potter and Prince-Hall, was released on July 16. She also broke all the sales records, divorced in the amount of nine million copies in the first 24 hours.

In the year, the Prince-Putings received the British Book Awards in the Book of the Year nomination. At the end of December, the name of the seventh and last book about Harry Potter was declared - Harry Potter and Death Gifts.In February, it became known that Rowling wrote at a bust in her hotel room in The Balmoral in Edinburgh that she had completed the seventh book in this room on January 11 of the year.

The novel Harry Potter and the Gifts of Death was released on July 21 and broke the record of his predecessor as the most quickly sold book of all times. On the first day in the UK and in the USA, 11 million copies were sold. Rowling wrote the last chapter of the book “Somewhere in the year”. When she was still working on the last book, she starred in the documentary “J K Rowling In it, Rowling visited her old apartment in Edinburgh, where she finished her first book about Harry Potter.

Returning to this apartment for the first time, she moved to tears, saying: "It was here that I really completely turned my life." In June, Rowling announced that all the materials related to Harry Potter will be collected in the new Pottermore web project. The project’s website presents 18 thousand words of additional information about the characters, places and facilities of the Harry Potter universe.

In the year, 9 years after the release of the seventh book, the series received an unexpected continuation in the form of a play in two parts of Harry Potter and a damned child, the action of which begins immediately after the epilogue of “Gifts of Death”. In October, Warner Bros. The film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was released on November 16, and Harry Potter and the Secret Room - November 15.

Both films were shot by director Chris Columbus. The fourth film, Harry Potter and the Fire Cup, was shot by Mike Newell and released on November 18. The film "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" was released on July 11. The director was again David Yates, and Clovis returned to the post of screenwriter. In March, Warner Bros. The first part was released in November, and the second in July.

Yates took both parts. In July, Rowling parted with her literary agent Christopher Little and moved to a new agency founded by one of his employees, Nile Blair, noting that this was a difficult decision. In the first three weeks after the release, the “random vacancy” was sold in an amount of more than a million copies around the world. In April of the year, Little Brown published the Cubmarian Cub, the debut novel by the author Robert Galbrait, whom the publisher described as a “former civilian military police investigator, who went to work in the civilian security sphere.” The second novel about Kormoran Strayka, called the Silkoprakhov, was released in June, in it, Stryk is investigating the disappearance of the writer, hated by many of his old friends for insulting them in his new novel.

In the year it was announced that the first three books would be filmed in the form of the Stryk television series, which was premiered on August 27. The film adaptation of subsequent books will also be carried out. In March, Rowling announced that she was working on the fourth book, which is called “deadly whiteness”. The novel was released on September 18 and again became a bestseller.

In the year, Rowling was created by the Volant Charitable Trust charity foundation, which aims to combat poverty and social inequality. The fund finances organizations that help children, incomplete families, and are also engaged in research of multiple sclerosis. Her mother Anne was half a Frenchwoman, half a Scottish woman. Parents Rowling met in the year at the Kings-Cross London Station on a train heading to Arbrot.

They got married on March 14. Sister Rowling, Diana, was born in their house when Joan was 23 months old. Joan's great -grandfather - Daghald Campbell Grandfather of her mother’s mother - was born in the village of Lamlash on the island of Arran. Louis Volan, her other great-grandfather-also the grandfather of her mother, but on the paternal line-was awarded the military cross for the exceptional courage in the protection of the village of Rastel-Le-Continu during the First World War.

The first marriage on October 16 to November 17, with a television journalist Georges Arantim. In December, the writer married and took her husband’s last name - Murray English. Murray, but to write under the name J. There are three children: Jessica Isabelle Rowling Arantes