Joan Rowling, whose biography can amaze any reader, is the famous author of the novel about the good young wizard Harry Potter. Not only children are familiar with her work, but also adults, reading such popular books, and watching films made based on her works.
Childhood Joan Kathleen Rowling
The biography of a popular writer originates on the thirty-first of July, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-fifth. Little Joan was born in the small town of Yate, which is located in England, near Bristol. As a child, the baby was chubby, and poor eyesight forced her to wear glasses. At an early age, Joan was a dreamer - she loved to compose fairy tales, and then told them to her younger sister. This made a very good impression on the girl.
Joan's childhood was calm and happy. Her family consisted of parents, a grandmother and a younger sister. The future writer was very friendly and kind. Classes at school brought only joy. She especially loved the lessons of literature and English.
However, when she was nine years old, her family moved to the village, so the girl had to change school. The new environment had a negative effect on the heroine of the article. Teachers did not like her, but classmates considered her to be unsociable and secretive.
The teenage years of Joan Rowling
The biography tells about the new move of the Rowling family, which was carried out when the writer was fifteen years old. From this moment, the life of a young girl loses all the bright colors. An unfamiliar environment, a new school and the abandonment of old friends had a negative impact. In addition, around this year, Joan's grandmother left the world, and relations with her father became increasingly tense. The final point is the terrible mother’s disease - multiple sclerosis, which was never cured.
The British writer Joan Rowling, whose photo you can see in our material, wanted to go to Oxford after school, but her attempt was in vain. Therefore, the young girl began her student life at Exeter University, choosing a philological direction, as her parents advised her to do. However, after graduation, she could not find her life vocation, having changed more than one job. But in the year nineteen ninety, she met an interesting young man and decided to move to Manchester. However, the couple’s relationship did not last long.
How did the legendary Harry Potter story begin?
It's hard to believe, but the idea of a novel about a young wizard came to the writer completely spontaneously and unexpectedly. Once, when Joan was returning to London, her train was stopped in the middle of the road and delayed for several hours. The wait was boring and languid, so the writer examined the landscapes that opened before her eyes. And it was at that moment that she imagined the image of a boy who would soon go to school for sorcerers and wizards. Returning home, Joan immediately began writing a novel. Unfortunately, her mother died at this time.
The bitter loss forced the girl to leave her native country and start a new life. She decided to settle in Portugal and work as a teacher of a foreign language at the university. Full employment prevented me from working on a novel, which has changed a lot since the moment my mother died. The book clearly shows the experiences of a boy who survived the loss of his parents. After all, the writer herself felt the hardships of such a life.
Unsuccessful marriage and return to England
Joan Rowling (her biography is a direct confirmation of this) met her future husband in Porto, returning home. In nineteen ninety-two, their wedding took place. A few months after this event, the young couple was separated, since Georges was sent to army training. During his absence, the writer completed the first three chapters of the Harry Potter book. In nineteen ninety-three, Joan had a daughter. But the husband was not very happy with such an event and put his mother and newborn child out the door. The woman had no choice but to go to Scotland with her younger sister. Having stayed there a little, she decided to rent an apartment. A young mother without work and without money lived with the baby for state benefits and in every free minute she tried to write at least a few lines of the novel.
As the author of the book herself says, the tests that fate threw her at the same time were luck. It was necessary to gather all forces into a fist and finish the book, despite the severity of being.
End of work and publication of the first book
The British writer Joan Rowling, whose biography conquered the whole world, found the strength and finished writing the first book about a wizard named Harry Potter. In nineteen ninety-five, the novel was first published.
It was not easy to come up with a magical, completely new world. It took as long as five years. But not only writing a book was a daunting task. It is not so easy to be publishing this creation. Joan bought the cheapest typewriter and printed several chapters of the novel. However, no publisher liked the story of the young wizard. The author despaired and no longer wanted to make attempts. But the sister persuaded Joan to send her novel to another publisher. She did so. And only after a year of desperate attempts, the story of Harry Potter was published. And soon the writer received a grant to write the next book.
Long-awaited success
The British writer Joan Rowling published her first thousand books in nineteen ninety-seventh, half of which were sent to children's libraries.
And so, when the story of the surviving boy began to gain rapid popularity not only among children but also among adults, Joan sold at auction the right to publish a novel for one hundred and five thousand dollars and bought the good house with which she moved with a small daughter.
A few years later, it was decided to film the creation. Actors from England were taken on the role of three young wizards: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson. The picture was so successful that the box office at the box office reached almost a billion dollars.
True popularity
After the publication of the first book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the writer began writing her second novel, entitled Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. The series about the boy who survived consists of seven books. Joan Rowling, whose biography is reflected in her creations, received an award for every novel she wrote about the wizarding world.
The author carefully monitored all the scenarios and controlled the process of filming the film. She really wanted the picture on the screen to accurately reflect the novel she wrote. And during the filming of the last two parts, Rowling was also a producer.
Secrets of family life
Joan Rowling (a brief biography confirms this fact) remarried in 2001 to a doctor, Neil Scott Murray.
Two years after the start of family life, the couple had a boy, and two years later a girl. According to the writer herself, in her free time she likes to walk with children, as well as to draw and cook deliciously.
The recipe for happiness from Joan: "Find an activity that will bring you joy, and then a person who will pay for it."