Like that of her own character, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling's life has the luster of a fairy
tale. Divorced, living on public assistance in a tiny Edinburgh flat with her infant
daughter,
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and the Sorcerer's Stone at a table in a cafe during her daughter's naps — and it was Harry
Potter that rescued her.
Joanne Kathleen Rowling entered the world in Chipping Sodbury General Hospital in Bristol,
England, a fitting beginning for someone who would later enjoy making up strange names for
Rowling remembers that she always wanted to write and that the first story she actually wrote
down, when she was five or six, was a story about a rabbit called Rabbit. Many of her
favorite
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around reading—hearing The Wind in the Willows read aloud by her father when she had the
measles, enjoying the fantastic adventure stories of E. Nesbit, reveling in the magical
world of C. S. Lewis's Narnia, and her favorite story of all, The Little White Horse by
Elizabeth Goudge.
At Exeter University Rowling took her degree in French and spent one year studying in Paris.
After college she moved to London to work for Amnesty International as a researcher and
bilingual
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best thing about working in an office, she has said, was typing up stories on the computer
when no one was watching. During this time, on a particularly long train ride from Manchester
to London in the summer of 1990, the idea came to her of a boy who is a wizard and doesn't
know it. He attends a school for wizardry--she could see him very plainly in her mind. By the
time
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Cross Station four hours later, many of the characters and the early stages of the plot were
fully formed in her head. The story took further shape as she continued working on it in
pubs and cafes over her lunch hours.
In 1992 Rowling left off working in offices and moved to Portugal to teach English as a
Second Language. In spite of her students making jokes about her name (this time they called
her "Rolling Stone"), she enjoyed teaching. She worked afternoons and evenings, leaving
mornings
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marriage to a Portuguese TV journalist ended in divorce, Rowling returned to Britain with her
infant daughter and a suitcase full of Harry Potter notes and chapters. She settled in
Edinburgh to be near her sister and set out to finish the book before looking for a teaching
job. Wheeling her daughter's carriage around the city to escape their tiny, cold apartment,
she would duck into coffee shops to write when the baby fell asleep. In this way she finished
the
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publishers. It was rejected several times before she found an London agent, chosen because
she liked his name--Christopher Little, who sold the manuscript to Bloomsbury Children's
Books.
Rowling was working as a French teacher when she heard that her book about the boy wizard had
been accepted for publication. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was published in
June
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success. With the publication of the American edition, retitled Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer's Stone, in 1998, Rowling's books continued to make publishing history. Harry
Potter climbed to the top of all the bestseller lists for children's and adult books. Indeed,
the story of the boy wizard, his Cinderlad childhood, and his adventures at Hogwarts School
of Witchcraft and Wizardry caught the imagination of readers of all ages. In Britain a
separate edition of the first book appeared with a more
Jo
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Edinburgh, Scotland, with her daughter Jessica and continues to work on writing the seven-
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