Rowling's first novel for an adult audience,The Casual Vacancy, was published by Little Brown in September 2012. In 2016 she, along with Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, published the script of the play Harry Potter and the cursed child. She won the 2016 PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award. She has also written Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Quidditch Through the Ages, and The Tales of Beedle the Bard. She is number 1 on the Hollywood Reporter's '25 Most Powerful Authors' 2016 list. All of the books in the series have been made into successful movies. The Harry Potter Series consists of seven books, one for each year of the main character's attendance at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It was also noted as an ALA Notable Children's Book as well as Number One on the Top Ten of ALA's Best Books for Young Adults. The American edition won Best of the Year in the School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Parenting Magazine and the Cooperative Children's Book Center. The book was retitled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone for it's American release, and proceeded to top the Best Seller's lists for children's and adult books. At the Bologna Book Fair, Arthur Levine from Scholastic Books, bought the American rights to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone for the unprecedented amount of $105,000.00. Rowling continued on to win the Smarties Book Prize three years in a row, the only author ever to do so. She also received 8,000 pounds from the Scottish Arts Council, which contributed to the finishing touches on The Chamber of Secrets. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone won the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year, was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Award, and received a Commended citation in the Carnegie Medal awards. Rowling was working as a French teacher when her book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was published in June of 1997 and was an overnight sensation. She returned to Britain and settled in Edinburgh to be near her sister, and attempted to at least finish her book, before looking for another teaching job. It was after her stint teaching in Portugal that Rowling began to write the premise for Harry Potter. But the marriage dissolved soon after the birth of their daughter. There she met and married her husband, a Portuguese TV journalist. In 1992, Rowling quit office work to move to Portugal and teach English as a Second Language. This extensive education created a perfect foundation to spark the Harry Potter series that Rowling is renowned for.Īfter college, Rowling moved to London to work for Amnesty International, where she researched human rights abuses in Francophone Africa, and worked as a bilingual secretary. She later took some teaching classes at Moray House Teacher Training College and a teacher-training course in Manchester, England. She received a degree in French from Exeter University. Rowling attended Tutshill Primary and then went on to Wyedean Comprehensive where she was made Head Girl in her final year. She also writes fiction novels under the name of Robert Galbraith. (Joanne Kathleen) Rowling was born in Gloucestershire, U. Xv, 143 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps 30 cm Rowling's Quidditch through the ages (text originally published in 2001)" - Provided by publisher. "With an introduction by Albus Dumbledore" - Back cover. "Whizz Hard Books, 129B Diagon Alley, London." - Title page. Kennilworthy Whisp is a fictitious author created by J.K. Now fully illustrated in brilliant color by award-winning artist Emily Gravett, this special new edition is a beautiful gift for Harry Potter fans and Quidditch enthusiasts alike. This invaluable volume is consulted by young Quidditch fans on an almost daily basis. If you have ever asked yourself where the Golden Snitch came from, how the Bludgers came into existence, or why the Wigtown Wanderers have pictures of meat cleavers on their robes, you need Quidditch Through the Ages.
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