HARRY POTTER SAVED HER

J.K. Rowling was born in England in 1965. She loved reading and wrote her first story Rabbit when she was only six years old. She studied French at university, then worked as a secretary in London. She had the idea for Harry Potter when she was on the train. ‘Harry just walked into my head,’ she said later. She started writing her first Harry Potter book the next day. In 1992, she went to live in Portugal for three years. She wrote stories in the morning and worked as an English teacher in the afternoon and evening. She got married to a Portuguese TV journalist and had a daughter called Jessica. Then she returned to Britain and lived in Edinburgh, in Scotland. She didn’t have a job at that time and wrote in cafés because they were warmer than her small flat. Unemployed and poor, she started to write about Harry. After five years she finished her first book Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. J. K. Rowling has become a very famous writer, her books have sold millions of copies around the world. She is now very rich, but still writes her books in cafés!