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Facts about J.K. Rowling Biography
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A beloved aspect of J.K. Rowling's biography is her dramatic rise from poverty to becoming one of the wealthiest authors in the world through the Harry Potter series.
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The pen name J.K. Rowling was suggested by her publisher, who feared boys might avoid books written by a woman, as her real name is Joanne Rowling.
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Twelve publishers rejected J.K. Rowling's manuscript for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone before Bloomsbury accepted it in 1996.
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Before achieving success, J.K. Rowling was a single mother living on welfare benefits while completing the first Harry Potter manuscript.
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Born in Yate, Gloucestershire in 1965, J.K. Rowling conceived the idea for Harry Potter on a delayed train journey from Manchester to London in 1990.