J.K. Rowling

I find thinking of my true hero is very complicated. When most people think of heroes they think of fictional characters in costumes crossing a city to get to some bad guy and saving the world. That is not what I would choose as my hero though. I choose J.K. Rowling because she is my favorite author, she wrote the amazing Harry Potter series. She has inspired multiple generations of people to read.

Her birth name is Joanne Rowling, but she writes under the pen name of J.K. Rowling. J.K. Rowling stands for Joanne Kathleen Rowling. She was born at South Gloucestershire, England on 1965. When she was just two years old she had a baby sister named Dianna or Di as her sister calls her. When she was just four years old her family moved. They moved to Tutshil when Rowling was nine years old. Rowling liked to write as a young girl.

On a four hour delayed train Rowling had the idea for a book of a wizard boy attending a school for wizards. She could not find a single thing to write with so she had to wait till later that evening to start writing Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone. By this time she had a daughter named Jessica and she was in desperate need for money and a place to live. She then bought a little house close to her sisters. Every time she could get baby Jessica asleep she rushed to write her novel. In 1995 she finally finished her first masterpiece. She had trouble getting an editor and publisher but she finally got both of them.

Five months after the book was written it got the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize. J.K. Rowling was surprised at how many people liked her book, she thought they were just a fad. She soon found out that Harry Potter was indeed not a fad. The book also soon won the prestigious British Book Award for Children’s Book of the Year. in October 1998 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s stone was published and released in the United States of America. In 1999 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was released in England. The third installment of the Harry Potter Series won the Smarties Prize award. Now J.K. Rowling was the First and only woman or even person to win it three times in a row.