Rowling went on to write a total of seven books about Harry, and each one has been made into a movie, with the final book split into two movies because of its length. The book was an immediate success and has been published in many languages.
After the book was turned down by nine publishers, her agent, Christopher, finally found a publisher in August 1996. The second agent she tried asked to see the rest of the manuscript, then took her on as a client. When it was done, she sent the first three chapters of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone to an agent, who sent back a polite refusal. Whenever her daughter fell asleep, she would put her in a stroller and go to the local cafe and write. Knowing that she needed to get a full time job to support herself and her daughter, she was determined to finish the book soon, before she became too busy. The marriage lasted a year, and in December 1993, the divorced mom moved to Edinburgh, where her sister Di was living. Though she didn't finish her book in Portugal as she'd hoped, she met and married a Portuguese man and gave birth to a daughter, Jessica. It had undergone a number of changes since her mother died. She took the Harry Potter manuscript with her.
Nine months later, still grieving for her mother, Rowling left for Portugal, where she had a job teaching English in a language institute. However, the book was put on hold when on December 30, 1990, her mother, who'd been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when J.K. That very evening, she began to write the first book, although Rowling admits those first few pages didn't resemble anything that wound up in the published book. Not having a pen on her, she spent four hours on the train conjuring up ideas surrounding a scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who didn't know he was a wizard. After spending a weekend searching for an apartment, the idea of Harry Potter popped into her head when she was traveling back to London on the train. In 1990, and and her boyfriend moved to Manchester together. After leaving university she worked in London including a stint with Amnesty International. She studied French at the University of Exeter, on the south coast of England and spent a year living in Paris as part of her course. Joanne Rowling was born near Bristol, England, on July 31, 1965.
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