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Free Download Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone Full Version J. She also writes crime fiction under the pen name Robert Galbraith.J.K. The books are the basis of a popular film series, over which Rowling had overall approval on the scripts and was a producer on the final films. She is best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series, which has won multiple awards and sold more than 500 million copies, becoming the best-selling book series in history. Rowling, is a British author, philanthropist, film producer, television producer, and screenwriter.
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Since then, Rowling has written several books for adult readers: The Casual Vacancy (2012) and—under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith—the crime fiction Cormoran Strike series. There were six sequels, of which the last was released in 2007. The seven-year period that followed saw the death of her mother, birth of her first child, divorce from her first husband, and relative poverty until the first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was published in 1997. Were lots of people called Potter who had a son called Harry.Born in Yate, Gloucestershire, Rowling was working as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International in 1990 when she conceived the idea for the Harry Potter series while on a delayed train from Manchester to London.
In October 2010, she was named the "Most Influential Woman in Britain" by leading magazine editors. Rowling was appointed a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to literature and philanthropy. Time named her a runner-up for its 2007 Person of the Year, noting the social, moral, and political inspiration she has given her fans.
8.3.1 Cormoran Strike series (as Robert Galbraith)Although she writes under the pen name J. 3.1 Anti-poverty and children's welfare 2.11 Subsequent Harry Potter publications 2.4 Marriage, divorce, and single parenthood These views have been criticised as transphobic by many LGBT rights organisations and some feminists, but have received support from some other feminists and individuals.
Life and career Birth and familyRowling's parents met on a train from King's Cross Station. During the Leveson Inquiry, she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling and her entry in Who's Who lists her name also as Joanne Kathleen Rowling. Following her remarriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. As she had no middle name, she chose K (for Kathleen) as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother. Her publishers asked that she use two initials rather than her full name, anticipating the possibility of the target audience of young boys not wanting to read a book written by a woman.
Her mother's French paternal grandfather, Louis Volant, was awarded the War Cross for exceptional bravery in defending the village of Courcelles-le-Comte during World War I. One of Rowling's maternal great-grandfathers, Dugald Campbell, was a Scottish man from Lamlash. They married on 14 March 1965. Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964.
Aged nine, Rowling moved to Church Cottage in the Gloucestershire village of Tutshill, close to Chepstow, Wales. As a child, Rowling often wrote fantasy stories which she frequently read to her sister. The family moved to the nearby village of Winterbourne when Rowling was four. ChildhoodRowling's childhood home, Church Cottage, Tutshill, GloucestershireRowling's sister Dianne was born at their home when Rowling was 23 months old. When she heard her grandfather's story of bravery and discovered that the War Cross was for "ordinary" soldiers like her grandfather, who had been a waiter, she stated the War Cross was "better" to her than the Legion of Honour. She later discovered the truth when featured in an episode of the UK genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are? in which she found out it was a different Louis Volant who won the Legion of Honour.
Sean Harris, her best friend in the Upper Sixth, owned a turquoise Ford Anglia which she says inspired a flying version that appeared in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Rowling later said that she based the character of Hermione Granger on herself when she was eleven. Her home life was complicated by her mother's diagnosis with multiple sclerosis and a strained relationship with her father, with whom she is not on speaking terms. Rowling has said that her teenage years were unhappy. Mitford became Rowling's heroine, and Rowling read all of her books.
Steve Eddy, her first secondary school English teacher, remembers her as "not exceptional" but "one of a group of girls who were bright, and quite good at English". She attended secondary school at Wyedean School and College, where her mother worked in the science department. Her headmaster at St Michael's, Alfred Dunn, has been suggested as the inspiration for the Harry Potter headmaster Albus Dumbledore. EducationAs a child, Rowling attended St Michael's Primary School, a school founded by abolitionist William Wilberforce and education reformer Hannah More.
In 1990, she was on a four-hour delayed train trip from Manchester to London when the idea "came fully formed" into her mind for a story of a young boy attending a school of wizardry. Inspiration and mother's deathRowling worked as a researcher and bilingual secretary in London for Amnesty International, then moved with her boyfriend to Manchester where she worked at the Chamber of Commerce. In 1988, Rowling wrote a short essay about her time studying Classics titled "What was the Name of that Nymph Again? or Greek and Roman Studies Recalled" it was published by the University of Exeter's journal Pegasus.
Her mother's death heavily affected Rowling's writing, and she channelled her own feelings of loss by writing about Harry's grief in greater detail in the first book. Rowling was writing Harry Potter at the time and had never told her mother about it. In December 1990, Rowling's mother Anne died after suffering from multiple sclerosis for ten years.
In 1993, she returned to the UK accompanied by her daughter and three completed chapters of Harry Potter after her marriage had deteriorated.
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