J. K. Rowling is the writer of Harry Potter, which is now one of the best sellers in the world. She was born in Britain on July 31st, 1965. She had one sister who was two years younger than her. Both girls liked listening to their father' s bedtime stories. They especially loved stories about magic. Rowling wrote her first story at the age of six.
On a long train trip in 1990, an idea came to her. She wanted to write about a boy who had magic but he didn' t know it. In 1992, Rowling began to write the first Harry Potter book for young readers. It appeared in June, 1997. The book was a great success. And the film came out in November, 2001. Now the Harry Potter series is popular with people of all ages and about sixty million books have been sold in 200 countries. In this series, Harry is an ordinary boy: polite, friendly, brave and clever, so when children read about Harry, they can imagine being like him. That' s why the Harry Potter series has been so popular.
J. K. Rowling had a hard time in the early years. She once got divorced from her husband, and then she didn' t have enough money to raise the family. Later, she had to look after her mother who was badly ill in hospital. However, J. K. Rowling never gave up writing no matter what difficulties she had. Instead, she thought all the success came from the early failures. Now she' s really enjoying the life and is very satisfied with the success. Harry Potter books are a global success and her fans are very loyal (忠诚的). Children that were eight, nine, or ten when the books first came out in the 1990s are now in their 20s. Plenty of adults loved the books whether they had children or not, so the future market for her is huge. Most people think that J. K. Rowling' s readers will be more and more and no one can take the place of her position.
J. K. Rowling says she will go on writing for her whole life, just as what she said in the speech to Harvard students, "As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. "
