J.K. Rowling was born in 1965 in England. She began writing stories at a young age. After graduating university, she moved to Portugal to teach English, where she married and had a daughter. Her marriage ended in divorce, leaving her as a struggling single mother. During this difficult time, she began writing the Harry Potter series. After many rejections, the first book was published in 1997 and became a worldwide phenomenon, selling over 450 million copies and launching Rowling into fame and fortune as one of the most successful authors ever.
J.K. Rowling was born in 1965 in England. She began writing stories at a young age. After graduating university, she moved to Portugal to teach English, where she married and had a daughter. Her marriage ended in divorce, leaving her as a struggling single mother. During this difficult time, she began writing the Harry Potter series. After many rejections, the first book was published in 1997 and became a worldwide phenomenon, selling over 450 million copies and launching Rowling into fame and fortune as one of the most successful authors ever.
J.K. Rowling was born in 1965 in England. She began writing stories at a young age. After graduating university, she moved to Portugal to teach English, where she married and had a daughter. Her marriage ended in divorce, leaving her as a struggling single mother. During this difficult time, she began writing the Harry Potter series. After many rejections, the first book was published in 1997 and became a worldwide phenomenon, selling over 450 million copies and launching Rowling into fame and fortune as one of the most successful authors ever.
J.K. Rowling was born in 1965 in England. She began writing stories at a young age. After graduating university, she moved to Portugal to teach English, where she married and had a daughter. Her marriage ended in divorce, leaving her as a struggling single mother. During this difficult time, she began writing the Harry Potter series. After many rejections, the first book was published in 1997 and became a worldwide phenomenon, selling over 450 million copies and launching Rowling into fame and fortune as one of the most successful authors ever.
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J.K. Rowling, was born in 1965, in a small town of England.
Joanne wrote her first story when
she was six years old. It was a fairy tale about a rabbit. The childhood of the future novelist cannot be called difficult. On the contrary, it was a quiet and happy childhood that she spent in surrounding of caring parents, favorite sister, and grandmother. At the age of 15, her family moved. Around the same time, Joanne’s favorite granny died, her relationship with her father soured, and her mother became seriously ill with multiple sclerosis. Treatment did not give a positive result, so Anne Rowling’s condition was getting worse every year. For the young girl, mother’s illness was the biggest shock of her life. After graduating from School in 1983, Joanne Rowling decided to enter Oxford University. She had successfully passed the entrance exams but was not accepted.. However, she entered the University of Exeter located in South West England, on the faculty of philology, where she was intensely studying French. Beginning of the ‘Harry Potter’ History In the summer of 1990, Rowling’s boyfriend relocated to Manchester. She spent a weekend with him. When returning to London by train an idea of Harry Potter suddenly came into her mind during that trip. On returning home, Joanne immediately sat down at her desk and began to write. One day, the apartment, where she had been living, was robbed. The thieves took away many memorable things left from her mother, but, fortunately, they did not steal the shoe box full of the outline of “Harry Potter.” Joanne’s mother, Anne Rowling, died in 1990 at the age of 45. She had visited her six days before she passed away, but she could not realize the seriousness of her mother’s disease. The death of her mother sent Joanne into a depression. Marriage, Divorce, and Returning Home Nine months after the death of her mother, Joanne decided to leave the country and start a new life in Portugal. She began to teach English as a foreign language. She met A journalist Jorge Arantes, 1992, they got married. Soon, Jorge was called for the training assembly, and he was absent for a few months. While her husband was not at home, Joanne wrote the first three chapters of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. After returning home, Jorge Arantes could not find a job, and Joanne had to work almost to the birth of their daughter, Jessica, who was bornin, 1993 in Portugal. After a few months after the birth of a daughter, Joanne’s husband beat her and drove her out of the house. In December 1993, Rowling and her infant daughter moved to Joanne’s sister in Edinburgh. By the end of 1993, Rowling saw herself as a failure. An exceptionally her marriage had collapsed, and she was unemployed. She was a lone parent living with her daughter close to being homeless. During this period, Rowling was diagnosed with clinical depression and contemplated suicide. Her illness helped her to invent the characters known as Dementors, dark creatures, feeding upon human happiness, introduced in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the third novel in the Harry Potter series. A few months later, Joanne decided to rent a small apartment in Edinburgh. Becoming a single mother, , she was forced to live on state benefits. Joanne Rowling received 70 pounds per week, which she spent on cheap food and some clothes for Jessica. However, all those failures helped her to become stronger, or else Rowling would never know how to succeed. In 1995, after five years of writing, Joanne Rowling finally finished Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. She remade the first chapter of her book for fifteen times! She knew that getting it published is never going to be easy. She received replies from the publishers as, “It is too difficult for children, “It is too long”, “Children would not be interested in it.” Her manuscript was rejected by the top 12 publishing company. She got disappointed and had no idea what to do now. Finally, the publishing house in London, Bloomsbury gave her green signal. She added “K” to her pen name and just for $4000, Bloomsbury brought the rights of Harry Potter from the J. K. Rowling. The book won the British Book Award for Children’s Book of the year. Eventually, In 1998, US publishing company, Scholastic Inc. brought its rights for $105,000 and this was the time when the whole world was about to hear the magical story of Harry Potter. By the time the whole world fell in love with Harry Potter, her third and fourth edition had broken all the records. Her series of seven books has since sold more than 450 million copies which transformed her life completely.Later on, Warner Brother purchased the film rights to the first two novels for $1.5 million.In 2011, Forbes estimated her total worth about $1 billion and that made her the wealthiest author of the world. LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE SUCCESS STORY OF J. K. ROWLING 1. Don’t let Failures to stop you. 2. Follow your Passion and Don’t Give Up on your Dreams.
3. Success won’t come Overnight. She took five years to finish her first book, she faced loads of rejections from publishing companies and at last, she made it!
