JK Rowling: The complicated chemistry of success.
Joanne Rowling is one of the most famous authors in the world: Her books of the saga of Harry Potter They are read by children and not so children around the world, and their sales, film exploitation rights and merchandising, have led her to be one of the richest writers in the world.
Forbes named her the pfirst person to earn $ 1000 billion from writing books.
Joanne Rowling's childhood:
Harry Potter is an orphan boy with magical powers, who escapes to a magical world to escape the terrible life given to him by his uncles, with whom he lives. Joanne Rowling also lived her own hell at that stage of her life, but not at home, but at school: the teacher who made his life impossible, Mrs. Morgan one of the most evil characters in Harry Potter, the professor Severus Snape.
At the age of six he wrote his first story, although his passion for literature develops in his adolescent stage, his great-aunt gave him an old copy of the autobiography of Jessica mitford: In his honor he named his first daughter Jessica.
The beginning:
He studied French philology, worked in Porto as an English teacher and there she married Jorge Arantes, a Portuguese journalist with whom had a daughter.
Joanne left Portugal when her daughter was only a few months away from the alcoholism and mistreatment of her husband.
Moved to scotland with his daughter, where suffered from clinical depression y he came to consider suicide. That stage of his life gave him the idea of Dementors, creatures without a soul.
Unemployed and living off state subsidies, Rowling completed his first novel writing in various cafes.
Diagon Alley: The Wizarding World where JK Rowling unleashes her childhood traumas through Harry Potter.
Harry Potter is finally published!
Rejected by publishers, her first book is published thanks to Alice Newton, the eight-year-old daughter of the president of Bloomsbury publishing house. The manuscript fell into the girl's hands by chance and her father agreed to publish it so as not to disappoint her. The first installment was published in 1997 with a circulation of only 1000 copies.
Rowling had writer's block between The Goblet of Fire y Harry Porter and the Order of the Phoenix Pressured by her success and being exposed socially, despite her shy nature. "I ran out of time or energy when I reached the end," he said referring to Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
Joanne Rowling today:
After past hardships as a single mother, now chairs a charitable association that helps single-parent families: gingerbread.
She is a shy person, jealous of her privacy to whom It is difficult for him to bear fame and public life.
The Harry Potter series has been translated into 74 languages.
It is married to anesthetist Neil Murray, since 2001, and they have two children.