JK's Career

J.K Rowling was known as one of the most successful women in the world. She was also featured in the Forbes magazine. Rowling writing career started at the age of six when she wrote a story called Rabbit. Rowling wrote Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone at a table in a café during her daughter’s naps. When Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was bought and published by Bloomsbury in 1997 her life changed dramatically, the Harry Potter series has since then won numerous awards and become a tremendous success around the world. Like that of her own character, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling's life has the luster of a fairy tale. Divorced, living on public assistance in a tiny Edinburgh flat with her infant daughter, it was Harry Potter that rescued her. First, the Scottish Arts Council gave Rowling a grant to finish the book. After its sale to Bloomsbury and Scholastic Books, the accolades began to pile up. Harry Potter won The British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year, and the Smarties Prize, and rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic.

If you would like to see more awards, click on this link below:
http://inhonorofrowling.com/awards/






Works Cited

In Honor of Rowling. fanfusion.com. Web. March 2010
http://inhonorofrowling.com/awards/

"J.K Rowling " Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. 19 March 2010.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._K._Rowling