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Rowling, J K

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Rowling, J(oanne) K(athleen) (1965– )

English children's novelist. Her series of novels about Harry Potter, a schoolboy wizard, achieved great critical and commercial success and were made into successful films. Rowling made publishing history when her books hit the top of the (adult) best-seller lists in both the UK and the USA in 2000.

The series comprises Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (US edition: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone; 1997), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003), and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005), and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007).

Rowling was born in Chipping Sodbury, England. She studied French at Exeter University and spent a year in Paris, France, returning to England to work as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International. She worked as a teacher while writing her first Harry Potter novel. The first book was instantly acclaimed, winning the Smarties Book Prize Gold Medal and being named the 1997 British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban won the 1999 Whitbread Children's Book of the Year.



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