History of success of Joanne Rowling Childhood and youth They have become the best-selling book series in history. Moreover, they have been the basis for a series of films, which is the second highest-grossing film series in history. Joanne “Jo” Rowling, best known as J.K. Rowling, was born on June 31, 1965, in a small town of Yate, Gloucestershire, England. She adopted her pen name, J.K., incorporating her grandmother's name, Kathleen, for the latter initial (Rowling does not have a middle name). Her father, Peter James Rowling was worked as an engineer in a legendary British company Rolls-Royce and her mother, Anne Rowling (née Volant), was a half-French and half-Scottish science technician. They were both Londoners. They met on a train travelling from King's Cross station to Arbroath in Scotland when they were both eighteen; her father was off to join the Royal Navy, her mother to join the WRNS (the women's equivalent). Anne said she was cold, Peter offered her a half share in his coat, and they got married just over a year later, when they were nineteen. Both left the navy and moved to the outskirts of Bristol, in the West of England. (http://hpearth.com/index.php?magic=info/jkr ) Four years after the birth of Joanne, the family moved to the nearby village …show more content…
The books are what they are because she died.” Today, Harry Potter is a global brand, estimated at $15 billion. The last four books of Harry Potter consistently set records as the best-selling books in history. The series, totalling 4,195 pages, has been translated, in whole or in part, into 65 languages. It was also recognized that the Harry Potter books have caused interest in reading among young people at the time when children were thought to refuse from books in favor of computers and