Joanne Kathleen Rowling was born in Chipping Sodbury,
England in 1965. He began writing at the age of 6 with a
story called ‘Rabbit’, which never ended.

In high school, her favorite subject was English. from above
School, Rowling went to the University of Exeter, where she obtained
a degree in French.

After graduating, he spent a year studying in Paris and
then returned to London where he worked on a series of
jobs, including a year with Amnesty International and a
short time as secretary of a publishing house, where
was responsible for sending out the reject tickets.

In the summer of 1990, we delayed a train from Manchester
to London, he got the idea from a boy who discovers
he is a magician. But it would be 7 years before the idea.
it became a book.

In that same year his mother died of Multiple Sclerosis and
went to Portugal to teach English, hoping to find a
way to deal with your grievance.

In October 1992, she married a Portuguese television personality.
journalist, Jorge Arantes. But the marriage lasted only
eleven months.

In 1993 she left her husband and returned to England, with
the only legacy of his failed marriage: a young daughter
called Jessica.

His life suddenly turned upside down. He fights against poverty and
depression, lived in a mouse-infested flat in Edinburgh
and struggled to raise her little daughter on a welfare check
70 pounds ($100) a week.

Unable to heat her flat, she sat in cafes nursing a
espresso for 2 hours at a time and worked feverishly on the
manuscript of ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’
while her little daughter slept in a stroller.

The manuscript is said to have been rejected by three
British publishers: Penguin, Transworld and HarperCollins.

But Bloomsbury Children’s Books reportedly signed her up.
paying £10,000 ($14,300) for the rights to ‘Harry Potter’
and The Philosopher’s Stone.

Philosopher’s Stone was published on June 30, 1997 and
it was an instant hit.

The book was published under his initials because his
The publisher feared that children would be less likely to read the
book if they knew it was written by a woman.

At a book fair in Italy that same year, Scholastic Books
bought the American rights for $105,000, an unheard of
figure of a children’s writer with a single book
Name.

It was published in the United States in 1998 under the title
‘Harry potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’.

The sequel – ‘Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets’ –
was published in June 1999 and later that year, the
The third book in the series, ‘Harry Potter and
The prisoner of Azkaban’.

When his fourth book appeared in 2000, ‘Harry
Potter and the Goblet of Fire’ – the series had become a
international phenomenon: the initial printing of his 4th
book was 1.5 million copies in the UK and 3.8 million in
the United States.

By the year 2000, JK Rowland had become the highest-earning woman in
Great Britain, with revenues of more than £20.5 million ($29.3 million)
in the previous year.

In 2001, his annual earnings were estimated at over £24 million,
($34.3m) putting her between Madonna and Paul McCartney in
the ranks of high-earning celebrities.

In October 1998, Warner Brothers bought the rights to ‘Harry
Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ and its sequel (‘Harry
Potter and the Chamber of Secrets’), for the tidy sum of
$700,000.

With the release of the first Harry Potter film, JK
Rowling’s total earnings are estimated to have exceeded
$100 million

In March 2001 he received the OBE (Order of the British)
Empire) for the Queen, for services to children
literature.