J. K. Rowling
Joanne Kathleen Rowling is the author of the Harry Potter and the Philosopher's (Sorceror's) Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Quidditch Through the Ages, and The Tales of Beedle the Bard. Her first known work was a short story called A Rabbit Called Rabbit, which she wrote when she was a child. She first thought about the idea of Harry Potter on a delayed train in 1990. It took her six years to write and get the first book published. Several publishing companies turned her book down before Bloomsbury published it in 1996. J.K Rowling started writing the first Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, in her favorite coffee shop with a borrowed pen. She was so poor back then that she didn't even know whether to buy her daughter shoes. Now, after worldwide literary success, she is one of the richest women in Great Britain.
