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JK Rowling. Cicely Batie World History Scrapbook Pd. 5. Childhood. Born on July 31, 1965 Joanne Rowling In Yate, Gloucestershire, England. Childhood. Moved when she was four Went to St Michael's Primary School Moved again when she was nine Wrote many short stories. Background. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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+Childhood Moved when she was four
Went to St Michael's Primary School
Moved again when she was nine
Wrote many short stories
+Background
Attended Wyedean School and College
Studied for a BA at University of Exeter in French and Classics
Lived in Paris for a year
Moved to London and worked with Amnesty International
+Personal Life Moved to Porto, Portugal
and taught English
Met and married Jorge Arantes in 1992
1993 she gave birth to Jessica Isabel Rowling Arantes
Divorced Jorge in December of that year
+Personal Life
Moved back to Scotland to live near her sister.
Taught in local schools
Suffered from depression and had thoughts of suicide
Received money from wel-fare and depending upon it.
+Harry Potter
Series of books that has given her world-wide fame
Idea dropped into her head out of the blue at a train station.
+Harry Potter
Has had the entire series laid out before finishing the first book
Took six years to complete the first book
Wrote on a manual typewriter
+Harry Potter
Harry Potter is now a world-wide trademark and is estimated at about $15 billion.
Her series will be made into movies and has broken countless records in book sales