Short biography of jk rowling
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J. K. Rowling Biography
Born: July 31, 1965
Chipping Sodbury, England
English writer
J. K. Rowling is an English author of novels for young people, and caused an overnight sensation with her first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (… Sorceror's Stone in the United States) , which rose to the top of the children's best-seller lists in 1998.
Short biography of jk rowling
Even before publication, publishers in the United States were competing for rights to the book, with the top bidder paying one hundred thousand dollars—the most ever for a first novel by a children's book author.
A British upbringing
Born near Bristol, England, Joanne K. Rowling grew up with a younger sister and an intense interest in storytelling. Rabbits played a large part in her early tales, for Rowling and her sister badly wanted a rabbit.
Her first story, at age five or six, involved a rabbit named, quite logically, Rabbit, who got the measles (a contagious