Author of the Century

There is probably no person in the world who is unfamiliar with J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter books, the first person to become a billionaire from writing books, and winner of many awards, but not a lot of people thought she could be a writer at first. She didn't have a very special childhood to begin with. She was born in Chipping Sodbury, on July 31, 1965, the same birthdate as Harry Potter. Her family moved a lot when she was young. After Chipping Sodbury, her family moved to Yate, and then Winterbourne, and around when she was 9, to Tutshill. J.K. spent the rest of her childhood there. When she grew up, she gradualted from the university of Exeter in 1986, and took several secretarial jobs after becoming a writer. It was 1997 when her first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (in British), was published. From then on, J.K. Rowling has been writing and the world has kept reading.