Published in 2003 with a first print run of 8.5 million copies (USA). The fifth book in the series, Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix was Rowling had sold at least 30 million copies of the first threeīooks which had been printed in 35 languages, earning approximately $400 Million copies with advance orders of over 1.8 million.īy 2000, Ms. In July 2000, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire had a first printing of 5.3 Languages and earned approximately $480 million. Literature - a relief to many adult authors vying for the top slots on the listīy Summer 2000, the first three books had sold over 35 million copies in 35 This resulted in the New York Times introducing a bestseller list for children's New York Times bestsellers list - after achieving similar success in the UK.
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Three installments of the Harry Potter series took over the top 3 slots in the In 1999 Rowling became an international literary sensation when the first The Prisoner of Azkaban, was published in the UK in July 1999 and in the USA in In July 1998 and in the USA in June 1999. The sequel, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets was published in the UK USA in September 1998 by Arthur A Levine Books/Scholastic Press, with Renamed Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the book was published in the Harry Potter won The British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year, and the Thereafter the accolades began to pile up. (at the time of writing 1st editions of this book are on the market for upwards
The book was published in the UK by Bloomsbury Children's Books in June 1997 Rights for enough money that she was able to give up teaching. Rolling, rolling, keep those wagons rolling.')Ī few months later Arthur A Levine Books/Scholastic Press bought the American The corridors with the first line of the theme from Rawhide "Rolling, Stone for the equivalent of about USA $4,000 to Bloomsbury (UK).īy this time Rowling was working as a French teacher (being serenaded down Number of rejections, she eventually sold Harry Potter and The Philosopher's The Scottish Arts Council gave her a grant to finish the book and, after a She wrote at a café table while Jessica was napping. Novel before starting work as a French teacher - and, of course, to try and get She set herself a deadline - to finish the Harry Jo brought with her the first three chapters of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Rowling and her daughter moved to Edinburgh, Scotland, to be close to her Theirĭaughter, Jessica, was born in 1993. While in Portugal she met and married a Portuguese journalist, Jorge Arantes. The new book was about a boy who found out he was a wizard Starting work on her third novel (the first two having been abandoned as being
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She taught in the afternoons andĮvenings, leaving the mornings free for writing. In 1990, at the age of 26, she moved to Portugal to teach English. She wrote mostly in longhand and gradually built up a mass of notes, many of which were scribbled on odd scraps of paper. Over the next five years, she began to map out all seven books of the series. Jo conceived the idea of Harry Potter in 1990 while sitting on a delayed train from Manchester to London King's Cross. Years working a series of jobs including being 'the worst secretary ever', and being a researcher at Amnesty International. On graduating from Exeter she moved to London and spent a few
Her knowledge of Classics would one day come in handy for creating the spells in the Harry Potter series, some of which are based on Latin. Jo left home at eighteen for Exeter University, where she read so widely outside her French and Classics syllabus that she clocked up a fine of £50 for overdue books at the University library. Having been encouraged by her parents who said that this could lead to a greatĬareer as a bilingual secretary. She went to Exeter University straight after school and studied French, usually involving them all doing heroic and daring deeds that they wouldn't Quite, freckly, short-sighted and rubbish at sports.
Her family moved again when she was nine years old - to Tutshill nearĬhepstow in the Forest of Dean. Says she always liked the name, and preferred it to her own because the childrenĪlways made annoying jokes about rolling pins! She was friends with a brother and sister whose surname was Potter. Outside Bristol, to Winterbourne - also close to Bristol. Rowling can remember telling stories from early onĪnd writing down her first story when she was 5 or 6 years old - about a rabbitĬalled Rabbit who got the measles and was visited by friends including a giant Joanne Kathleen Rowling (pronounced rolling) was born on July 31st, 1965 inĬhipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England.
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