J. K. Rowling

Joanne Rowling (Joanne, Jo) was born 31 July 1963, in Chipping Sodbury, near Bristol. When she was four, they moved to Winterbourne with Joanne’s little sister, Dianne. She liked her sister, but they often fought, when they were children. So there is a scar above Di’s eyebrow since Joanne threw her by a battery. Jo started the school in this town and her elder headmaster inspired her in the future, when she created Albus Dumbledore’s character in the Harry Potter fiction. The Rowling family’s neighbor in Winterbourne was the Potter family. Many people thinks, that Harry’s personality is figured after the family’s son, with whom Jo sometimes played. It’s not true, in fact, Rowling doesn’t remember too many things about the boy, she just liked his surname (she wasn’t very fond of her own, because they usually called her „Rowling stone”, or „rolling pin”). At the age of six, she wrote her first book, about a rabbit, called Rabbit, and since then she has written fictions. She was nine, when they moved to the welsh Tutschill and nearly at the same time, her favourite grandparent, Kathleen died. Joanne took her name later, when she needed an extra initial. She spent her high school years in Wyedean, and here she hooked up with her first boyfriend, Sean, who had a blue Ford car, and it was inspired her int he story of the second Harry Potter book. The worst thing, what happened to her as a teenager, was her mother becoming incurably ill. She knew about it since she was 15. She finished the secondary school in 1983, and began to study French at Exter University, on the south side of England. She didn’t like to study French, and still sais, that the only good thing in the university was the one year, what she spent in Paris as the part of the course. After the graduation, she worked in London, at Amnesty International. This organisation fights for the human rights all over the world. But in 1990, Joanne and her then boyfriend decided to move up to