She recalls that: "I can still remember me telling her a story in which she fell down a rabbit hole and was fed strawberries by the rabbit family inside it. Her headmaster at St Michael's, Alfred Dunn, has been suggested as the inspiration for the Harry Potter headmaster Albus Dumbledore.Īs a child, Rowling often wrote fantasy stories, which she would usually then read to her sister.
She attended St Michael's Primary School, a school founded by abolitionist William Wilberforce and education reformer Hannah More. The family moved to the nearby village Winterbourne when Rowling was four. Rowling's sister Dianne was born at their home when Rowling was 23 months old. Her mother's paternal grandfather, Louis Volant, was awarded the Croix de Guerre for exceptional bravery in defending the village of Courcelles-le-Comte during the First World War. Her mother's maternal grandfather, Dugald Campbell, was born in Lamlash on the Isle of Arran. Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, and Anne Rowling (née Volant), on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. In a 2012 interview, Rowling noted that she no longer cared that people pronounced her name incorrectly. During the Leveson Inquiry she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling. She calls herself Jo and has said, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry." Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling.
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Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. Rowling, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.Although she writes under the pen name J.K. In the 2020s, thirty-something book-lovers will know each other by smug references to Diagon Alley and Quidditch * The Times * Rowling uses classic narrative devices with flair and originality and delivers a complex and demanding plot in the form of a hugely entertaining thriller * Scotsman * One of the greatest literary adventures of modern times * Sunday Telegraph * Spellbinding, enchanting, bewitching stuff * The Mirror * Rowling has set the standard: it's a high one * Stephen King * Funny, imaginative, magical. The fact that Harry attracted adults as well as children has never surprised me. He casts his spells on grown-ups too * James Naughtie * An incredibly gifted novelist. Review:Īnd you thought wizardry was for children. She has received many awards and honours, including an OBE for services to children's literature, France's Legion d'Honneur, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award.
She is writing a film script inspired by Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. She has written three companion volumes in aid of charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (in aid of Comic Relief) and The Tales of Beedle the Bard (in aid of Lumos).
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Loved by fans all over the world, the series has sold over 450 million copies, been translated into 77 languages, and made into 8 blockbuster films. ROWLING is the author of the record-breaking, multi-award-winning Harry Potter novels.
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