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Kathleen Rowling Research Paper

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Joanne Kathleen Rowling was born on July 31st, 1945 in Gwent Chepstow. Her childhood was mostly happy. She loved to read and really wanted to be an author when she grew up. Some of her favorite books were “The Little White horse” by Elizabeth Gouge, “Manxmouse” by Paul Gallico, and “The Lion, Witch, And The Wardrobe” by C.S. Lewis. She went to a very nice school called Wyedean Comprehensive and had very good grades. All though there was one thing she didn’t like: bullies. She had been often teased about her name. People called her “Rowling Pin” just to make her cry. But soon, things looked up, her good grades got her into a college called Exeter University. She was happy there and nobody teased her. She graduated 4 years later with a scholarship …show more content…

In those few hours, she got the idea for her first book “Harry Potter and the Sorcerers’ Stone.” Next, she had to find her agent, which turned out to be woman named Christopher Little. At last, it was time to find a publisher. Her agent sent Joannes book to many publishers, each of who turned down the book. Finally, Christopher found a publisher. The publishing company was called Scholastic books. There was only one problem with their publisher.The publisher had this idea that her book would sell better if people thought she were a man. Joanne wasn’t happy, but she agreed anyway and wrote her initials on her book instead of her real name. In 1991, she met her first husband, Jorge Arantes. They had a child named Jessica, and were very happy. But soon, they realized they weren’t ment to be and got into a divorce. After about a year, she had had an amazing success with “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” and had met a nice man named Neil Murray of whom she was good friends with. Soon they developed a relationship with him and, on December, 26, 2001, she got married to him in a private wedding down in Scotland. They had 2 children, Makenzie and David Murray who at a young age, loved to

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