J.K. Rowling: A Life in Literature
Title: Joanne Kathleen Rowling, OBE, FRSL, CH
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Family Background:
Father: Peter Rowling, an aircraft engineer at Rolls Royce factory in Bristol.
Mother: Anne Rowling, a science technician in the Chemistry department at Wyedean Comprehensive.
Siblings: One younger sister, Di Rowling.
Spouse:
First Husband: Jorge Arantes (married in 1992, divorced in 1993).
Current Husband: Neil Murray (married in 2001).
Children:
Jessica Rowling Arantes (born 1993).
David Murray Rowling (born 2003).
Mackenzie Jean Rowling (born 2005).
College List:
University of Exeter (1983-1986): Bachelor's degree in French and the Classics.
Moray House School of Education: Teacher training after university.
Achievements:
Harry Potter Series:
Books Sold: Over 600 million copies worldwide.
Languages: Translated into 84 languages.
Film Adaptations:
Harry Potter Series: Eight blockbuster films.
Fantastic Beasts Series: Five-film series (ongoing).
Net Worth: Estimated over $1 billion.
Awards:
1999: Costa Book Awards for "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban".
2000: British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year for "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire".
2008: Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to literature and philanthropy.
2017: Companion of Honour (CH) for services to literature and philanthropy.
2019: Legion d'Honneur (France).
Life Struggles:
1990 - Hardship: Mother's illness and death.
1992 - Struggle: Marriage to Jorge Arantes and birth of Jessica.
1993 - Struggle/Hardship: Divorce from Jorge Arantes and return to the UK with Jessica.
1994 - Hardship: Living on public assistance while writing the first Harry Potter book.
1996 - Rejection/Success: Rejected by multiple publishers before Bloomsbury accepted "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone".
2000 - Scrutiny: Public scrutiny and criticism over her views on gender and social issues.
Harry Potter Book Sales:
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: 120 million copies sold.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: 77 million copies sold.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: 65 million copies sold.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: 65 million copies sold.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: 65 million copies sold.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: 65 million copies sold.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: 65 million copies sold.
Harry Potter Film Box Office Gross:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2: $381 million.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: $317 million.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: $301 million.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1: $295 million.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: $292 million.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: $290 million.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: $261 million.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban:
Inspiration and mother's death
Born in 1965 , in Yate , England.
She never had good relationship with her father
After her graduation , Rowling took a job on writing articles related issues of life in Africa
- ఈ ప్రపంచం నిన్ను నమ్మక ముందే నిన్ను నువ్వు నమ్మాలి ... ఆ నమ్మకం తోటే నే పని చేయాలి ...
Idea
of Harry potter
In 1990, she frequently
took long train trips to visit boyfriend.
One day there was a train delay for four
hours that is when she developed the
characters Harry Potter,
in the journey she continued her imagination
Once she reached her flat then she began to write the story of Harry
potter.
When she was of age 25, Her mother died in 1990. At the time, when she was writing Harry Potter and had never told her mother about it.[
- ఇన్ని అడ్డంకులు ఉన్నాయి ఇంకా నేను ఈ కల మీద పని చేయాలా అవసరమా అనిపిస్తుంది కానీ కల నిజం అయ్యే వరకు పని చేస్తూనే ఉండాలి
SERIES OF BAD SITUATIONS
1990 : Lost her mother and
No good relationship with her father,[31] and
Her boyfriend also left her alone
These events heavily affected Rowling's writing.
But she never gave up her ambition to become a writer and never settled for normal jobs.
Moved to Portugal :
Her next job led her to move to Portugal, in November 1991
Where she got a job to teach night English classes
But she used to complete her writings during daytimes.
Marriage, and domestic abuse
1992 : Married : Here in Portugal she met Arantes and got married to him in short time
1993 : became Mother : within a year she became mother to a daughter Jessica
By this time,
Rowling had finished only the first three chapters of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Domestic
abuse
Rowling experienced troubles and domestic
abuse from her husband .
One day , Her husband Arantes
threw her out of the house;
Rowling took police help to retrieve here daughter Jessica
Then out of fear she went into hiding for two weeks
1993
: Separated : And so within a year
of marriage , Rowling and Arantes separated on 17 November 1993
Belief in Herself as writer
In
all these odd time still she carried her papers of writings in a
suitcase all over
That shows how much she has belief
in herself as a writer
There
were no previous experience or applauds or people to praise her writings still
she firmly believed that she can become a successful writer
Moving
to Scotland
Later, with a Papers of Harry
Potter in her suitcase,
Rowling moved along with her daughter to Scotland where her sister lived
Depressed
and down
Seven years after graduation, she saw herself as a failure.
Her marriage had failed
and she was jobless with a dependent child,
Now , She was depressed but did not lose her hope
She has said that "My daughter Jessica kept me going in all those odds “
Help
from her friend
Her old school friend, Sean Harris, loaned her £600 ($900),
Not wanting to burden her recently married sister, she moved to a another place
in Scotland ,
started living over there and was about to start writing again
Husband
troubles again next year
Arantes arrived in Scotland in March 1994 seeking both Rowling and Jessica
On 15 March 1994, but Rowling gets court
order to stop her husband from intervening her life
and Arantes has to go back
Depression
and suicide thoughts
Now, with all this disturbance , Rowling
began to experience a deep depression[104]
and sought medical help
Also , she contemplated of thoughts
about suicide.[38][j]
With nine months of therapy, things gradually improved.[104]
Later She filed for divorce on 10 August 1994[106] and
1995 : divorce : After a year the
divorce was finalised on 26 June 1995.[107]
Teacher
training
Still needing money and expecting to make a living by teaching, for which she had to
enroll a Teachers course
In the summer of 1995, another friend helped her to pay fee for full-time
for teacher course in college.[111]
She wanted to finish the
book before enrolling in a teacher training course , fearing she might not be able to finish once
she started the teachers course.[50]
She often wrote in cafés,[108]
She finished writing the book volume1 of Harry potter.
Rowling began a teacher training course after
completing her first novel.[114]
1996 : became teacher : She earned her teaching certificate in July 1996.[2]
started to work as a teacher
Publishing Harry Potter
1995 : Rowling completed Harry Potter and the Philosopher's
Stone in June 1995.[115]
Her manuscript summary was submitted to twelve publishers, all twelve
of them rejected it.
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Success
At last Barry Cunningham, of Bloomsbury publishing finally
bought it.
But Cunningham told her, "You'll never make any
money out of children's books,
1997 : On 26 June 1997, Bloomsbury published Philosopher's
Stone with an initial print run of
500 copies and paid her just $2800 for first book
Rowling had received only £2,800 ($4,200) in royalties.[125]
And what happened later is a history.
OVER 500 MILLION COPIES OF THIS BOOK ARE SOLD ALL OVER THE WORLD
Rowling wrote six sequels, which follow Harry's adventures at
Hogwarts with friends
Harry potter books were selling
millions of copies on the first day.[138]
The series ended with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,
published in July 2007.[139]
Harry potter Films
In 1999, Warner Bros. purchased
film rights to the first two Harry Potter novels and paid $1 million. ($ 1,000,000 ) for her 2 novels
Remarriage
By 1998, Rowling was portrayed in the media as a "penniless
divorcee hitting the jackpot".[125]
Rowling married Neil Murray, a doctor, in 2001
In 2004, Forbes named
Rowling "the first billion-dollar author".[170] Rowling denied that she was a billionaire in a 2005
interview.[171]
She was named the
world's highest paid author by Forbes in 2008,[173] 2017[174] and 2019.[175]
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