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Weve all read - and loved - the adventures of Harry Potter and his friends in the Wizarding World. But what of the genius behind it all, J.K. Rowling? Was getting the first book published easy for her, or was it a long struggle? How did she come up with so many amazing ideas for the books? How did her own life influence the characters in the series, both good and bad? And what about her life away from magic and mystery?
This fascinating book reveals over one hundred amazing facts about the author, numbered and organised into easy-to-read categories. Whether you simply enjoy a good biography, or are the wors most dedicated Harry Potter fan, this is the perfect book for you!
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101 Amazing Facts about J.K. Rowling
Holger Weling
&
Archie Thomas
Unofficial & Unauthorised
101 Amazing Facts about J.K. Rowling and Harry Potter
Published in 2019 by Jack Goldstein Books
Digital Edition converted & distributed by
Andrews UK Limited
www.andrewsuk.com
Copyright 2019 Holger Weling & Archie Thomas
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- Joanne Rowling was born on the 31 st July 1965 in Gloucestershire, England.
- Her Father is Peter Rowling, an aircraft factory manager; her Mother was Anne Rowling (born Volant), a laboratory technician.
- Rowling married Jorge Arantes in 1992, divorcing him in 1995. She married long-term partner Neil Murray in 2001.
- Jo has three children: Jessica (born on the 27 th July 1993), David (born on the 24 th March 2003) and Mackenzie (born on the 23 rd January 2005).
- The oldest of these three children was named after author and civil rights activist Jessica Mitford, who Rowling has said has been her heroine since the age of fourteen.
- She attended the University of Exeter to study French and the Classics, before further studying modern languages at the Moray House School of Education at Edinburgh University.
- Early in Rowlings career, she worked as a Francophone Africa researcher for Amnesty International in London.
- In 2000 the author set up the Volant Charitable Trust, which funds charitable causes in Scotland with an emphasis on women and childrens issues. Rowling has said that she will do anything she can to combat child poverty and social inequality. The trusts title is derived from Rowlings mothers maiden name.
- In 2005, J.K. Rowling founded the international childrens charity Lumos , whose mission is to support the eight million or so children in institutions worldwide, help them regain their right to a family life, and seek an end to the institutionalization of children.
- In March 2015, Rowling received the British Red Cross Humanity Award for her charitable work and advocacy for humanitarian causes. The award honours prominent philanthropists and humanitarians whose work has changed peoples lives around the world.
- J.K. Rowling initially penned the ideas for Harry Potter on a napkin, while on a delayed train from Manchester to London in 1990.
- In 1993, she spent Christmas in Edinburgh with her sister and her young daughter Jessica. Unemployed at the time, she stayed there for a few months, living off welfare benefits while she finished Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone (known in America as Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone ).
- Rowling completed the final draft of Harry Potters first adventure in 1996 on a manual typewriter this was just before the internet and mass home computer use really took off.
- The American publisher of the Harry Potter series, Scholastic, was sued in 1999 by a woman called Nancy Stouffer on grounds of trademark infringement. She claimed that elements from the Harry Potter series were taken from her book The Legend of Rah and the Muggles , which was published 1984. In 2002 however, the lawsuit was dismissed when the judge ruled that Stouffer had perpetrated a fraud on the court.
- In October 2000, an 11-year-old Canadian fan got to interview J.K. Rowling alongside much-loved journalist Shelagh Rogers.
- Rowling was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2001 for services to childrens literature.
- On the 6 th of September 2005, J.K. Rowlings official portrait was unveiled at National Portrait Gallery in London.
- Rowling was chosen as the runner-up for Time Magazine s Person of the Year award in 2007, just losing out to Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
- On the 21 st of July 2007, the seventh book in the wizarding series Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was released. It sold 8.3 million copies in the United States in just the first 24 hours.
- In the same year, Jo was named Entertainer of the Year by Entertainment Weekly on their 25 Top Stars of 2007 list.
- Rowling received an honorary degree from Harvard University in 2008. On accepting the award, she gave a stirring commencement speech to her fellow graduates.
- On the 20 th September 2008, the author announced that she was donating 1 million to the Labour Party, the main left-leaning political party of the United Kingdom.
- French President Nicolas Sarkozy presented his countrys Legion of Honor award to Rowling in February 2009.
- In 2012, she published her first book for adults, called The Casual Vacancy.
- In 2013 J.K. Rowling released a crime novel The Cuckoos Calling under the pen name Robert Galbraith.
- Robbie Coltrane, who portrayed Hagrid in the Harry Potter films, has said in interviews that J.K. Rowling told him she based the character on a Hells Angels biker she knew.
- Only one modern-day Harry Potter character is named after a real person Natalie McDonald, Natalie was a young Canadian girl who wrote to Jo Rowling while in hospital receiving treatment for cancer. Rowlings reply sadly didnt reach Natalie before she died, so the author chose to immortalise the young girl in her stories.
- In the previous fact, we started by saying modern-day character. Why is that? Amazingly, Nicholas Flamel was a real person. He was a French scholar who lived in the early 15 th century, and in real life actually rumoured to have discovered the Philosophers stone, achieving immortality.
- J.K. Rowling was an avid reader as a child, so its no surprise to learn that the character she based on her eleven-year-old self is bookworm and all-round smarty-pants Hermione Granger... although Rowling has said that Hermione has a much more interesting name than hers.
- Rowling has said that while living in Winterbourne, a large village just outside of Bristol, she became friends with a brother and sister who had the surname Potter. She says that she always preferred their name to hers and admitted that children used to tease her with silly nicknames such as row-ling pin.
- Rowling filled five notebook pages with made up Q words before she came up with Quidditch .
- Speaking of quidditch, who hasnt dreamed of being able to jump on a broomstick and have a quick game? Although theres muggle quidditch to consider, you could always just have a game of basketball after all, thats the sport on which the author based the wizards favourite game.
- If youd add up the numbers at the time of writing, youd find that the seven Harry Potter books have collectively sold more than five hundred million copies around the world. Thats over half a billion books.
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