JK Rowling Reviews

J K (Joanne Kathleen) Rowling was born in the summer of 1965 in Yate General Hospital in England and grew up in Chepstow, Gwent where she moved to Wyedean Comprehensive. Chepstow was abandoned by Jo for Exeter University, where she made a Classics and French level, and in which her class contained a single year at Paris. She proceeded to work at Amnesty International, doing research to human rights abuses in Francophone Africa. She began writing the Harry Potter series to London King's Cross train travel through a Manchester, and summarized the plots and started writing the book. Jo moved into northern Portugal, where she taught English as a foreign language. She gave birth to her daughter Jessica at 1993 and wed in October 1992. When her marriage ended, she returned to the UK to live in Edinburgh, in which "Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone" was eventually finished and in 1996 she received the offer of publication. The next summer the world was introduced to Harry Potter. "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" was published by Bloomsbury Children's Books in June 1997 and was published as "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" in America by Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic in September 1998. The next title in this series, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", was published in July 1998 (June 2, 1999 in America) and was No. 1 at the mature hardback bestseller charts for a month after publication. "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" was published on 8th July 1999 (September 8, 1999 in America) to worldwide acclaim and enormous press attention. The book spent four months at No.1 at the adult hardback bestseller charts, while "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" simultaneously topped the paperback graphs. From the US the top was occupied by the first three Harry Potter books

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