biographical sketch of jk rowling
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J.K. ROWLING
Joanne Kathleen Rowling was born in Chipping Sodbury, England in 1965. She began writing at the age of 6 with a story called ‘Rabbit’, which she never finished. In the summer of 1990, on a delayed train from Manchester to London, she came up with the idea of a boy who discovers he is a wizard. But it would be 7 years before the idea became a book.
In that same year, her mother died of Multiple Sclerosis and she left for Portugal to teach English, hoping to find a way to deal with her grief. She married a Portuguese television journalist, Jorge Arantes. But the marriage lasted just eleven months. She left her husband and returned to England, with the one legacy of her failed marriage – a daughter named Jessica. All of a sudden, she found herself fighting poverty and depression. She lived in a tiny flat in Edinburgh and struggled to raise her daughter on a welfare cheque of £70 a week. Unable to heat her flat, she sat in cafés and took bus rides and wrote ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ while her daughter slept in a pram.
The book was rejected by many publishers, but it finally got published. The book was an instant success. So, she wrote the rest of the story. With the release of the first Harry Potter film, J.K. Rowling’s total earnings are estimated to have exceeded $100 million. In March 2001 she was awarded an OBE by the Queen, for services to children’s literature.
She is one of the most successful women in the world because she made the choice to keep going even when times were tough, and she never gave up. She is clearly incredibly talented too, but if she hadn’t have chosen to keep going, her talent would be completely unknown today.
It goes to show just how important the choices we make are.
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