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J. K. Rowling was born in Chipping Sodbury.
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When she was five years old, she wrote her first story.
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She studied French at Exeter University from 1983 to 1988.
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After university, she spent a year in Paris.
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In 1999 she went to Portugal to teach English and she married a Portuguese journalist.
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She had a daughter with her first husband. Her name is Jessica Isabel Rowling.
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J. K. Rowling's marriage ended in divorce and she returned to Britain with her daughter. She started to write Harry Potter's book.
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Bloomsbury Children's Book published her first novel "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone". It immediately became a best-seller.
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There are seven books in the original Harry Potter series, each book taking on a new school year in Harry's journey.
