TODAY IS THE BIRTHDAY OFJ..K. ROWLING. DISPLAY OF BOOKS/POSTERS AND SCREENING OF PPT AND VIDEOES DONE FOR THE STUDENTS JUST TO MAKE THEM AWARE OF VARIOUS FACTS ABOUT J.K. ROWLING. Biography Author (1965–) QUICK FACTS NAME -J.K. Rowling OCCUPATION -Author BIRTH DATE-July 31, 1965 (age 49) EDUCATION-St Michaels Primary School in Winterbourne, Wyedean School and College, University of Exeter PLACE OF BIRTH-Yate, England, United Kingdom AKA-Jo Rowling,J.K. Rowling FULL NAME-Joanne Rowling ZODIAC SIGN -Leo SYNOPSIS-EARLY STRUGGLES FAME AND FORTUNE-AFTER HARRY POTTER J.K. Rowling is the creator of the Harry Potter fantasy series, one of the most popular book and film franchises in history. QUOTES “I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized and I still had a daughter that I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” —J.K. Rowling Synopsis Born in Yate, England, on July 31, 1965, J.K. Rowling came from humble economic means before writing Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone, a childrens fantasy novel. The work was an international hit and Rowling wrote six more books in the series, which sold into the hundreds of millions and was adapted into a blockbuster film franchise. In 2012, Rowling released the non-Potter novel The Casual Vacancy. Early Struggles Joanne Rowling, best known as J.K. Rowling, was born on July 31, 1965, in Yate, England. She adopted her pen name, J.K., incorporating her grandmothers name, Kathleen, for the latter initial (Rowling does not have a middle name). As a single mother living in Edinburgh, Scotland, Rowling became an international literary sensation in 1999, when the first three installments of her Harry Potter childrens book series took over the top three slots of The New York Times best-seller list after achieving similar success in her native United Kingdom. The phenomenal response to Rowlings books culminated in July 2000, when the fourth volume in the series, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, became the fastest-selling book in history. A graduate of Exeter University, Rowling moved to Portugal in 1990 to teach English. There, she met and married the Portuguese journalist Jorge Arantes. The couples daughter, Jessica, was born in 1993. After her marriage ended in divorce, Rowling moved to Edinburgh with her daughter to live near her younger sister, Di. While struggling to support Jessica and herself on welfare, Rowling worked on a book, the idea for which had reportedly occurred to her while she was traveling on a train from Manchester to London in 1990. After a number of rejections, she finally sold the book, Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone (the word Philosopher was changed to Sorcerer for its publication in America), for the equivalent of about $4,000. The book, and its subseqent series, chronicled the life of Harry Potter, a young wizard, and his motley band of cohorts at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Fame and Fortune By the summer of 2000, the first three Harry Potter books, Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban earned approximately $480 million in three years, with over 35 million copies in print in 35 languages. In July 2000, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire saw a first printing of 5.3 million copies and advance orders of over 1.8 million. After a postponed release date, the fifth installment, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, hit bookstores in June 2003. The sixth installment, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, sold 6.9 million copies in the United States in its first 24 hours, the biggest opening in publishing history. Prior to its July 2007 release, the seventh and final installment in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, was the largest ever pre-ordered book at chain stores Barnes & Noble and Borders, and at Amazon. Rowling, now Britains 13th wealthiest woman—wealthier than even the Queen—does not plan to write any more books in the series, but has not entirely ruled out the possibility.
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