5 Facts about JK Rowling

1.) Harry Potter was created on napkins while J. K. Rowling was a single mother traveling by train. She completed her first book-length manuscript on an old manual typewriter while she was unemployed and living on state benefits.


2.) Her sixth book of the Harry Potter series sold more copies in twenty-four hours than The Da Vinci Code sold in a year. It also earned the Guinness Book of World Records Award for being the fastest selling book ever. 


3.) She has three children: Jessica (by Arantes), born in 1993; David (by Murray), born in 2003; and MacKenzie (by Murray), born in 2005.

4.) J.K. Rowling (pronounced "rolling") is a pseudonym. The author's real name is Joanne "Jo" Rowling. She has no middle name; the "K" is taken from her grandmother's name, Kathleen.

5.) In 1990, at the age of 26, she moved to Portugal to teach English. She says that she loved teaching English. She taught in the afternoons and evenings, leaving the mornings free for writing. At this time she was starting work on her third novel (the first two were never finished because she says they were 'very bad'). The new book was about a boy who found out he was a wizard and was sent off to wizard school.