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Birth
Joanne Rowling was born on 31st July 1965 near Bristol and grew up in Gloucestershire in England and in South-East Wales. -
Precocious writer
At school she wasn´t much interested in sports, but she was very imaginative and she liked languages. She wrote her first book at the age of six, a story about a rabbit, called ‘Rabbit’. -
Paris
She spent a year in Paris as a student. She tweeted: " It´s one of my favourite places on earth". She finished University in Exeter in 1987 -
A Boy who was a Wizard
She came up with the idea of Harry Potter in 1990 while she was on a train from Manchester to London. -
Edinburgh, a daughter and a divorce
She was a teacher in Portugal. There she got married and had a daughter, Jessica. In 1993 when the marriage ended , she returned to the UK to live in Edinburgh, with Jessica and a suitcase containing the first three chapters of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. -
Harry Potter and The Philosopher´s Stone
The book was first published in June 1997, under the name J.K. Rowling. It became a success. -
Life
J.K. Rowling has been married to Dr Neil Murray since 2001. They live in Edinburgh with their son, David (2003) and daughter, Mackenzie (2005). -
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Film Adaptations
In 2001, the film adaptation of the first book was released by Warner Bros., and was followed by six more book adaptations, concluding with the release of the eighth film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, in 2011. -
Screenplay
in 2016, J.K. Rowling made her screenwriting debut with the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, an extension of the Wizarding World.
The second instalment, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald was released in November 2018.
