J K Rowling

J K Rowling

Introduction

The paper attempts to highlight the work as well as the life of the well known author J. K. Rowling. The paper first provides an insight into her biography and her early life mentioning as to how she reached her current reputation. It then explains the various critics, both positive as well as the negatives ones, which she has faced in her life precisely due to her famous novel series “Harry Potter”. The paper also mentions the excerpts from the author's literary works giving personal own comments before each excerpt. It also provides an opinion regarding as to what position of J. K. Rowling is expected to be seen in the next 50 years.

Discussion

Biography J. K. Rowling

J. K. Rowling was born on 31 July 1965 in the small town of Yate, South Gloucestershire. Her father Peter Rowling was working as a manager at Rolls-Royce, and her mother Anne worked as a lab assistant (Wyman, 2000). In 1974 the family moved to Tutshill, Wales. In Winterbourne she made friends with the neighborhood, one of whom was called Ian Potter. She enjoyed taking strange names for the characters and places in her novels; many years later Joanne borrowed that name to give life to his famous character (Ciaccio & Taylir, 2011). When J. K. Rowling was nine years when she made her dream and moved to a rural county of Gwent called Forest of Dean, a hamlet near Chepstow, where the two sisters discovered the pleasure of playing in the green fields next British the River Wye (Wyman, 2000). The freckled, studious and rather insecure J. K. Rowling, by her own definition, grew up and left primary school to enter Tutshill of Wyedean, where she became interested in languages. At the University of Exeter, Devon, J. K. Rowling studied French and classics from 1983 to 1987 and made between (1985) in Paris in an internship as a teaching assistant (Anelli & Johnson, 2008). After graduation she began at first as a research assistant at Amnesty International in London (Ciaccio & Taylir, 2011).

Diligent student, soon also noted for his fondness for telling stories to a small circle of friends, who listened attentively to the telling of long stories in the days of recess. During his teens he wrote a lot, but, with the exception of a few funny stories, but were afraid to show their manuscripts to anyone (Walker, 2007). In 1989 she moved to London and worked there for some time as a secretary. During a train ride from Manchester to London in 1990 she thought of the fictional character Harry Potter. In her spare time she wrote her first novel about Harry Potter, an orphan with magical powers able to escape at will into a world of fantasy (Ciaccio & Taylir, 2011). Her childhood adventures of Harry Potter managed to break all sales records. In 1997, she finally got the prestigious British firm Bloomsbury to publish the book (Renton & Blake, ...