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Joanne Rowling was born on 31st July 1965 at Yate General Hospital near Bristol, and grew up in Gloucestershire in England and in Chepstow, Gwent, in south-east Wales.
Her father, Peter, was an aircraft engineer at the Rolls Royce factory in Bristol and her mother, Anne, was a science technician in the Chemistry department at Wyedean Comprehensive, where Jo herself went to school. Anne was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when Jo was a teenager and died in 1990, before the Harry Potter books were published. Jo also has a younger sister, Di.
The young Jo grew up surrounded by books. “I lived for books,’’ she has said. “I was your basic common-or-garden bookworm, complete with freckles and National Health spectacles.”
Respuesta: J. K. Rowling's real name is Joanne Rowling. He was born on July 31, 1965 in Yate (United Kingdom). She is a British writer known for being the author of the Harry Potter series of books, the famous boy apprentice wizard, of which more than 400 million copies have been sold.
Explicación: Joanne Rowling, known worldwide as J.K. Rowling is one of the most famous writers of all time. The story of the wizard boy, Harry Potter, is the world's best-selling book saga and thanks to him Rowling became the world's first billionaire writer.
J.K. He was born in Bristol, England, on July 31, 1965. To celebrate his 53 years, here we tell you his story and how he managed to change the history of literature.
The wizard boy
The idea for Harry Potter was born in 1990, while waiting for a train from Manchester to King’s Cross station in London. Over the next five years, he began to trace the history of the entire series, writing by hand, on scraps of paper that accumulated until he was able to finish the first manuscript: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
After living for a time in Portugal and the birth of her daughter, Rowling returned to the UK to live in Edinburgh, Scotland. As she herself recounted in a speech she gave at Harvard, “I was out of work, I was a single mother, and as poor as one can be without being destitute. By any standard, I was the biggest failure he knew.