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Where was she born  

J. K. Rowling was born in Chipping Sudbury in Bristol. She was very proud that she lived there because she liked weird names. When Miss Rowling was about nine, she moved with her family to a little village near Chepstow called Tutshill. It was located in Wales.

Published books 

J. K. Rowling wrote 4 and going on 5 books. Their names are listed below.

                       Harry Potter Books

1.    Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

2.    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

3.    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

4.    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  How Joanne Rowling writes her story

  On her first book, Miss. Rowling wrote down her ideas on a napkin on a train. With her other books, it took a lot of patience but she soon learned that trying to rush ideas just made it harder to write. It took a lot of hard work and with a lot of perseverance; she managed to finish her first book. She however was not satisfied with the ending because she thought that it was very hard to end. Joanne was very worried that the ending might not meet the reader’s expectations.  

Why Joanne writes fantasy stories 

J. K. Rowling liked to read fantasy books when she was growing up. As an older child she loved reading and fantasy books where a favorite. I think, because no one can be quite sure, that the reason, why Miss Rowling decided to write fantasy books was because she enjoyed them as a child and she wanted to be one of the many who where making that possible for children of all ages.

J. K. . Rowling’s ideas         

J. K. . Rowling got most of her ideas from friends, family members, and neighbors, like a boy at her secondary school who drove a turquoise, Ford Anglia which she used in her second book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. 

Major Awards 

1997: Bloomsbury children’s books published Harry Potter and the Philosophers stone in June 1997. They won the nestle Smarties book prize gold metal 9-11 years, the Birmingham cable children’s book award, the young telegram paper back of the year, the British book awards, children’s book of the year, the Sheffield children’s book award, and has been nominated for the guardian fiction award and the Carnegie medal (received commended).  The book has now been sold in fourteen countries. 

1999: The second title in the series, Harry Potter and the chamber of Secrets, won the nestle smarties book prize, 9-11 years, the Scottish arts council children book award, the British book awards children’s book of the year, plus it was nominated for the whit bread children’s book of the year award, the Sheffield children’s book award, and the guardian fiction prize. Harry Potter and the philosophers stone, made the bestseller list in both the New York Times and the Wall Street journal.

  2001: J. K. . Rowling received the order of the British Empire from the Prince of Wales at Bucking Ham Palace.

  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets  

Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets is an exciting novel where Harry Potter runs into a whole mess of trouble. He misses the train, loses all the bones in his arm, and gets the same arm pierces by a foot long venomous fang not long afterward. He avoids death with bravery, and the help of his friends. When ever I am bored, I open up a Harry Potter book, and that book, like so many others, opens up a whole new world, filled with excitement, danger, and magic.