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Joanne Kathleen Rowling.
Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, and Anne Rowling (née Volant), on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. At the age of nine, Rowling moved to Church Cottage in the Gloucestershire village of Tutshill, close to Chepstow, Wales. -
She earned a degree in French and Classics at the University of Exeter.
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Rowling was working as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International when she conceived the idea for the Harry Potter series on a delayed train from Manchester to London in 1990.
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is the first novel in the Harry Potter series.
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is the second novel in the Harry Potter series.
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In December 1999, the third novel, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
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The fourth book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, was released simultaneously in the UK and the US on 8 July 2000 and broke sales records in both countries.
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Тhe fifth Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
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The sixth book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, was released on 16 July 2005.
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The title of the seventh and final Harry Potter book was revealed on 21 December 2006 to be Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
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In June 2011, Rowling announced that future Harry Potter projects, and all electronic downloads, would be concentrated in a new website, called Pottermore.
