Biography

J.K. Rowling was born July 31, 1965 in a small town in England. Her birth name is Joanne Kathleen Rowling, and she would grow up to be one of the richest author's in the world today. According to her website, Rowling described herself as a "rotund baby". Her mother had her when she was twenty, with only marrying her husband a year prior when they met on a train not too long before that. Rowling's earliest memory she can remember from her childhood is expierencing the birth of her younger sister Di. She can recall walking into her parent's bedroom and seeing "[her] mother lying in bed in her nightdress next to [her] beaming sister, who [was] stark naked with a full head of hair...". The author has said that her sister was her best friend growing up, the time when she frist started writing. Rowling said she's been writing since the age of 5 or 6. Rabbit was the name of her first story and it contained exciting animal characters. After expierencing her mother dying, living in Portugal to be an english teacher, and giving birth to her first daughter, J.K. Rowling ended up in Edinburgh to live with Di to support her daughter as a single mother, and to continue writing a novel she had already started that would soon become the first book of one of the most famous series ever to be published.