Rowling missed her friends, but misfortunes never come alone. Classmates remember herself as an unsociable and secretive girl, who lives in the world of fantasy and always writes something in her notebook.Ī young Joanne Rowling with her mother Anne and sister Dianne.Īt the age of 15, her family moved again. You never forget the teachers who said to you, “You can do this”,” Joanne recalls. “The pride I felt at my work read out to other students was a very big deal to me.

They did, and Rowling remember those teachers until now. She had a couple of primary school teachers who, when reading out her work to the class, made Joanne feel very special. However, Rowling had several teachers who did encourage her to write. Later, Rowling has admitted that she modeled the character Severus Snape after Mrs. Joanne was very frustrated, as she knew she was an intelligent student. Morgan always requested Joanne to sit right side of the class. She labeled the left side of the classroom as the side for the smartest kids in the class. At the same time, Joanne encountered some problems because of her math teacher, Mrs. At school, she realized that her favorite subject was the English language and reading. Michael’s Primary School, founded by abolitionist William Wilberforce and education reformer Hannah More 200 years ago. Anne read many books to her daughters and by the years of five, Joanne could retell every single book almost by heart. Her mother gave all her time to the family, so she wanted to provide a good education to her daughters. However, her parents always wanted to buy their house in the UK, and when Joanne was nine years old, they moved to the village Tutshill, in the County of Forest of Dean.Īt this time, Joanne Rowling took a fancy to literature thanks to her mother. Joanne enjoyed studying at St Michael’s Primary School and loved modeling clay pottery, painting and learning of the history of literature. On the contrary, it was a quiet and happy childhood that she spent in surrounding of caring parents, favorite sister, and grandmother. The childhood of the future novelist cannot be called difficult. Joanne’s younger sister Dee was the first listener to her stories. His friends came to visit him with a giant bee, called Miss Bee. It was a fairy tale about a rabbit, called Rabbit, who had measles. Joanne wrote her first story when she was six years old. Always being a dreamer, she loved to narrate her incredible fairytale stories. Joanne was a small, rotund girl, wearing glasses.

In 1969, four years after the birth of Joanne, the family moved to the nearby village Winterbourne.

Soon, they left the Navy service and relocated to the suburb of Bristol, in the West of England. Anne was cold, and Peter offered her a half share in his coat. Her father was about to join the Royal Navy her mother was off to join the Women’s Royal Naval Service. They met each other on a train while traveling from King’s Cross station to Arbroath in Scotland, both of them were eighteen years old. Her father, Peter James Rowling, was an engineer at a legendary British company Rolls-Royce and her mother, Anne Rowling (née Volant), was a half-French and half-Scottish science technician. Her pen name, J.K., she incorporated from her grandmother’s name, Kathleen. Rowling, was born on June 31, 1965, in a small town of Yate, Gloucestershire, England. Joanne “Jo” Rowling, OBE FRSL, best known as J.K.

The Casual Vacancy and Other Fiction Books.

Successful Publication of the First Book.

First Attempts to Publish 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'.

Beginning of the 'Harry Potter' History.

Success story movies