Reading 1 ..... You are going to read about J.K. Rowling, author of the famous Harry Potter books. A Biography of J.K. Rowling When the first Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, hit the book stands, millions of children all over the world became instant fans of the scrawny', black-haired, bespectacled boy wizard. The Hogwarts School of Witcheraft and Wizardry, where Harry went to read Wizardry, became a reality in millions of young minds. Some readers actually peered into the moonlight in the hope of seeing Harry sweep past on his magic broom. The amazingly gifted' author of the Harry Potter fantasy series is Joanne Rowling. Rowling was born on 31 July, 1965, in Yale, Gloucestershire, England, the same day as her creation, the phenomenal' Harry Potter. Surprisingly, many of her young readers did not even know she was a woman. Her very first publisher thought that a woman's name would not appeal to an audience that they (wrongly) assumed would consist mainly of young boys. Joanne added a second initial, 'K' for Kathleen, after her paternal' grandmother, and so Rowling's pen name became J.K. Rowling.not everyone is familiar with her difficult childhood herbchallenging teenage years, and her struggde with povery and pain. It was her gritt and determination that make her life a truue rags-to-riches story. ven as a child, Rowling loved writing more than anything else and wanted to be a famous writer. She often wrote tantasy stories, which she would read to her she was five or six years old. It was about a rabbit called Rabbit who got measles and was visited by his friends, Including a giant bee called Miss Bee. Rowling came from a humble background and attended secondary school in Gloucestershire, where her mother worked as a technician in the science department. Her English teacher described her as bright and quite good at English but not an exceptional student. She was rather studious, and moulded' Hermione (a bookish, know-it-all Harry Potter character) as a caricature of herself when she was eleven. younger sister. The first story she ever wrote was when Jo took the exams for admission into Oxford University, but was not accepted. This was something of a shock to her, but she overcame her disappointment and went on to graduate in French and Classics' at the University of Exeter. She then moved to London to work as a researcher at Amnesty International, a non-governmental organization that works for human rights. On one of her assignments, she was travelling on a crowded train when the idea for Harry Potter entered her head. She had never been so excited about an idea before, but she didn't have a pen to jot down her thoughts. So she simply sat and contemplatedº for four hours as her train was delayed. The image of Harry Potter took shape in her imagination, a skinny, green-eyed, dark-haired, bespectacled boy who didn't know that he was a wizard. She began to write Harry Potter and the Philosonher's Stone that very evening.Jo continued to struggle in her personal life. Her mother passed away after years of suffering from a disorder the nervous system. Jo did not get a chance to tell her about Harry Potter. Her mother's death strongly affected Jo's writing and she expressed her own feelings when she described Harry's longing" for his dead parents in her first novel. Comprehensu In 1995, Rowling finished her manuscript for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. The book was submitted to twelve publishing houses, all of which rejected the manuseript. A year later, she was finally given a chance by editor Barry Cunningham of Bloomsbury. There was no looking back. The Harry Potter novels have sold over 450 million copies worldwide, and have been translated into 72 languages. Jo's life is a true success story and an inspiration to young people struggling with failure and disappointments. After a difficult childhood, disturbed teenage years, a broken marriage, the challenges of being a single parent and having to depend on state benefit" for a living, she is now Britain's 13th wealthiest woman and a renowned" author. She is the recipient" of several prestigious" awards and is the first child ren's author to have won the British Book Award's Author of the Year. Jo has never forgotten her humble beginnings and her years of struggle. She supports a wide number of worthy" causes through her charitable trust, Volant, and is the founder of Lumos, a charity working to transform the lives of disadvantaged children. The Harry Potter scries chronicles" the life of Harry Potter, a young wizard, and his mixed band of friends at the Hogwarts School of Witcheraft and Wizardry. The main story concerns Harry's pursuit" to overcome" the Dark Wizard, Lord Voldemort. Voldemort aims to become immortal², conquer the wizarding world, control non- magical people, and destroy all those who stand in his way, especially Harry Potter. Rehana Ali
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Adaptation of the first of J.K. Rowling's popular children's novels about Harry Potter, a boy who learns on his eleventh birthday that he is the orphaned son of two powerful wizards and possesses unique magical powers of his own. He is summoned from his life as an unwanted child to become a student at Hogwarts, an English boarding school for wizards. There, he meets several friends who become his closest allies and help him discover the truth about his parents' mysterious deaths.
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Alternative Title: “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, also called Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the first novel in the immensely popular Harry Potter series by British writer J.K. Rowling. It was first published in Britain in 1997 and appeared in the United States the following year under the title Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. The book’s imaginative story line about a boy wizard made it an enduring hit with both children and adults