There are very few people who do not know the name Joanne Rawling, the author of the Harry Potter series.0:07
She is internationally famous and her books have sold millions of copies worldwide.0:14
J.K. rowling is one of the world's most successful writers.0:19
So how did she become one?0:24
Rolling was born near Bristol, England.0:26
As a child she enjoyed writing stories which she often read to her sister at school.0:30
Joanne was good at languages, but didn't like sport or mathematics.0:36
She studied French and Classics at the University of Exeter, with a year of study in Paris.0:41
After graduating from university, Joanne Rowling moved to London to work for an organization called Amnesty International.0:48
One day, while she was on a train trip between Manchester and London, she had the idea for a story of a young boy who goes to a very unusual school, a school of wizardry.0:57
As soon as she got home, she began writing.1:09
A few months later, Rawling went to Portugal to teach English as a foreign language.1:12
There she got married and had a daughter, Jessica.1:19
Soon she and her little daughter returned to Great Britain, to Scotland, and she had a hard time earning her living.1:23
She had no job and badly needed money.1:30
Then she remembered her book, finished the manuscript and typed it on an old typewriter.1:34
She offered her book to 12 publishing homes.1:40
Not one of them took it.1:44
A year later, Barry Cunningham from the small publishing house Bloomsbury agreed to publish the book.1:46
He did it after 8 year old Alice Newton, the daughter of the company chairman, read the beginning of the story about Harry Potter and asked for more.1:52
Anyhow, while publishing the book, Cunningham was not sure that the book would be a success or make any money.2:02
But the book became a real best seller.2:09
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