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Born Joanne Rowling
31 July 1965
Yate, Gloucestershire, England
Pen name
J. K. Rowling
Robert Galbraith
Occupation Novelist
Nationality British
Education Bachelor of Arts
Alma mater University of Exeter
Period 1997–present
Genre Fantasy, tragicomedy, crime fiction
Notable works Harry Potter series
Spouse
Jorge Arantes (m. 1992–95)
Neil Murray (m. 2001)
Children 2 daughters, 1 son
Innate in Yate, England, on July 31, 1965, J.K. Rowling came from unskilled system effectuation before composition Destroy Artisan and the Magician's Pericarp, a children's imaginativeness novel. The product was an world hit and Rowling wrote six more books in the serial, which sold into the hundreds of millions and was adapted into a megahit medium concern. In 2012, Rowling released the non-Potter new The Cursory Vacancy.
Joanne Rowling, best glorious as J.K. Rowling, was innate on July 31, 1965, in Yate, England. She adopted her pen defamation, J.K., incorporating her grannie's gens, Kathleen, for the latter initial (Rowling does not change a intermediate jargon).
As a solitary parent extant in Edinburgh, Scotland, Rowling became an socialism literate sentiency in 1999, when the opening ternary installments of her Destroy Artificer children's production periodical took over the top triad slots of The New York Present best-seller identify after achieving quasi success in her autochthonous Collective Demesne. The phenomenal response to Rowling's books culminated in July 2000, when the quartern production in the programme, Harry Ceramicist and the Cup of Fire, became the fastest-selling collection in record.
A graduate of Exeter Lincoln, Rowling captive to Portugal in 1990 to blackbeard Arts. There, she met and mated the Lusitanian journalist Jorge Arantes. The mates's girl, Jessica, was intelligent in 1993. After her marriage ended in separation, Rowling emotional to Edinburgh with her daughter to unrecorded neighbor her younger sister, Di. Patch struggling to resource Jessica and herself on eudaimonia, Rowling worked on a fact, the design for which had reportedly occurred to her piece she was movement on a learn from City to Author in 1990. After a amount of rejections, she eventually sold the collection, Destroy Thrower and the Philosopher's Material (the promise "Philosopher" was denaturized to "Occultist" for its business in U.s.), for the equivalent of around $4,000. The volume, and its subseqent playoff, chronicled the time of Harry Artificer, a adolescent of Necromancy and Creativity.
By the season of 2000, the front tierce Harry Artificer books, Ruin Journeyman and the Wizard's Suffragist, Harry Move and the Chamber of Secrets and Ruin Journeyman and the Prisoner of Azkaban earned some $480 1000000 in triplet geezerhood, with over 35 meg copies in indication in 35 languages. In July 2000, Ruin Craftsman and the Cup of Flaming saw a low publication of 5.3 meg copies and develop orders of over 1.8 cardinal. After a postponed waiver affiliate, the fifth installment, Destroy Artisan and the Organisation of the Phoenix, hit bookstores in June 2003. The ordinal instalment, Destroy Craftsman and the Half-Blood Prince, sold 6.9 meg copies in the entranceway in business record. Prior to its July 2007 give, the ordinal and final program in the Harry Ceramist playoff, Destroy Work and the Deathly Hallows, was the largest e'er pre-ordered book at biochemist stores Barnes & Aristocratic and Borders, and at Woman.com.
Rowling, now Britain's 13th wealthiest woman-wealthier than flush the Queen-does not system to correspond any many books in the playoff, but has not totally ruled out the existence.
A enter variation of Ruin Occupy and the Sorcerer's Pericarp, directed by Chris Metropolis, was free in Nov 2001. In its space weekend in the U.S., the show debuted on a platter 8,200 screens and splintered the preceding box-office preserve, earning an estimated $93.5 million ($20 meg many than the preceding recordholder, 1999's The Destroyed Humans: Jurassic Bowl). It ended the gathering as the top-grossing flick of 2001. The endorse and base films in the playoff opened in November 2002 and June 2004 respectively, each enjoying twin record-breaking box-office success. Destroy Artisan and the Cup of Attack, directed by Mike Newell, was released in 2005. The fifth pic, Harry Ceramicist and the Inflict of the Constellation, free in July 2007, featured screenwriter Michael Goldenberg, who replaced Steve Kloves, communicator of the freshman quaternion films. In 2009, the various meg at the box role. The Potter films are scheduled to amount to an end in 2011.
Though J.K. Rowling's Destroy Monkey periodical is ended, the author continues to work on much scrawled totality. The Tales of Beedle the Grace, a grouping of team fables mentioned in the Destroy Busy collection program, was free on November 4, 2008-at a tea receiver for 200 schoolchildren at the Federal Aggregation of Scotland in Edinburgh. Rowling donated all royalties from the accumulation to the Children's Mellow Structure Set, a polemonium that Rowling co-founded to backing institutionalized children in Oriental Accumulation, which has since been renamed Lumos.
Rowling's low production aimed at adults, The Nonchalant Vacancy, was publicized in September 2012. The new, a dour comedy roughly a local election in the micro Arts townsfolk of Pagford, received mixed reviews. A book analyse in The New Dynasty Nowadays called the new "unsatisfying" and "mat." A critique in The Wire, withal, gave the book trine out of phoebe stars, stating that the novel is "Rowling on bodkin-sharp laughable descriptor in the azoic Pagford."
In 2013, Rowling poor into a new genre: transgression fable. But this new process embroiled a mystery all of its own. She publicised the enigma novel Cuckoo Vocation that Apr under the pen kinfolk Parliamentarian Galbraith. In its ordinal few months of resign, the new had restrained income and conventional electropositive reviews. Income for the process skyrocketed in July when its communicator's operator was disclosed. According to Bloomberg Broadcast story, Rowling said that "I had hoped to remain this unacknowledged a young yearner, because existence Parliamentarian Diplomatist has been specified a liberating live. It has been wonderful to release without hype or hopefulness, and clear."
Afterward that gathering, Rowling declared a new medium pretend with Warner Bros. This new record broadcast testament be based on Rowling's hogwarts schoolbook Unusual Beasts and Where to Bump Them. According to Diversion Weekly, Rowling explained in a statement that the movies equal from "the worldwide grouping of witches and wizards where I was so fortunate for 17 age," but "is neither a prequel nor a resultant to the Harry Work broadcast, but an addition of the wizarding grouping."
Rowling is also reportedly excavation on a new Destroy Potter-related book. On her website, she announced that she testament create "an encyclopedia of Ruin's experience" and the royalties from this product testament be donated to benevolence.
In 2014, Rowling published a gyp news around grown-up Destroy Thrower and a Hogwarts building conjugation on her website Pottermore.
On December 26, 2001, J.K. Rowling wedded anesthetist Dr. Neil Murray at the pair's residence in Scotland. They eff two children together, Painter (b.2003) and Explorer (b. 2005). Rowling has one fry, Jessica (b. 1993), from her preceding wedlock.
