Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Novel Story - The letter was Rich # 1: JK Rowling

Joanne Kathleen Rowling was born in Chipping Sodbury, England in 1965. She began writing at the age of 6 with Story called "Rabbit", which she never finished.
In high school, was his favorite subject in English. Top School, went Rowling to Exeter University where she obtained a degree in French.
After graduation she spent a year studying in Paris and then returned to London where she worked in a number of Jobs, including a year with Amnesty International and a short time as a secretary in a publishing house, where they was responsible for sending rejection slips.
In the summer of 1990 on a delayed train from Manchester in London, she had the idea of a boy who discovers He is a magician. But it would be seven years before the performance was a book.
In the same year his mother died of multiple sclerosis and she left Portugal to teach English, hoping to find how to deal with his grief.
In October 1992, she married Portuguese television Journalist Jorge Arantes. But the marriage lasted a little eleven months.
In 1993 she left her husband and returned to England with a legacy of his failed marriage - a little girl Jessica named.
His life takes an unexpected episode. Fight against poverty and Depression, she lived in an apartment infested with mice in Edinburgh and fought for her daughter on a welfare check-raise £ 70 ($ 100) per week.
Can heat their homes, she was sitting in cafes overlooking Espresso for 2.00 bis 01.00 clock and worked feverishly to Manuscript of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" while her daughter slept in a stroller.
The manuscript was rejected by three British publishers - Penguin, HarperCollins and Transworld.
But Bloomsbury Children's Books has made its entry would be Payment of £ 10,000 ($ 14.300) for the rights of Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone.
The Philosopher's Stone was published 30th June 1997 was an immediate success.
The book was published under her initials because she Publisher feared that boys read less Books if they knew it was written by a woman.
At a book fair in Italy later this year, Scholastic Books bought the rights for U.S. $ 105,000, the highest Figure for a children's writer with a book on his name.
It was in the U.S. in 1998 with the title "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone".
After Harry - "Potter and the Chamber of Secrets' - was published in June 1999 and later this year, released third book in the series, "Harry Potter and Prisoner of Azkaban. "
When her fourth book appeared in 2000 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire "- the series has become a international phenomenon: the first printing in the fourth Book was 1.5 million copies in Britain and 3.8 million in the United States.
had in 2000, JK Rowland, the woman deserves the highest in Britain, with an income of over £ 20,500,000 ($ 29,300,000) the previous year.
In 2001, the annual revenue estimated at more than £ 24m, ($ 34.3 million) to place between Madonna and Paul McCartney the ranks of celebrity high incomes.
In October 1998 Warner Brothers bought the rights to "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone "and its sequel ('Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets "), for the tidy sum of $ 700,000.
With the release of the first Harry Potter film, JK Total earnings have exceeded estimated Rowling $ 100 million.
In March 2001 she was awarded an OBE (Order of British Empire) by Queen, for services for children Literature.

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