Brainchild of the famous Harry Potter series, Joanne Rowling, popularly known as J K Rowling wrote her first story called Rabbit at age 6 and wrote her first novel at age 11.

Rowling applied to study at Oxford University, however, she got rejected. She eventually ended up studying French at the University of Exeter.

One day, stuck on a delayed train for four hours between Manchester and London, she dreamed up a boy called “Harry Potter“. That was in 1990 and took good five years to plan all the seven books in the Harry Potter series. Most of her plans were written by hand on odd scraps of paper. Her last book’s epilogue was written in 1990.

The original manuscripts of the Harry Potter series were rejected by twelve publishing houses. A publishing house in London called Bloomsbury published the first Harry Potter.

She became World’s First Billionaire Author. J.K. Rowling was also the producer of the final films of the Harry Potter series.

One of her prized possessions is the first edition of a Jane Austen book.

In 2000, J.K. Rowling got of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

J.K. Rowling created a pseudonym as Robert Galbraith and published her books, ‘The Casual Vacancy’, ‘The Cuckoo’s calling’, ‘The Silkworm’, and ‘Career of Evil’.