How Did Jk Rowling Affect American Culture
The Impact of J.K. Rowling on American Culture We do not need magic to transform our world we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already -J.K. Rowling. J.K. Rowling is a fictional writer born in England. She is most widely known for creating the wonderful world of Harry Potter in the 1990’s. Rowling came up with this idea for Harry Potter while delayed on a train and many of her ideas for the book came from her own life. The Harry Potter book series contains seven books that are immensely popular. Rowling’s first Harry Potter book introduces readers to the world of witchcraft and wizardry along with the main character Harry, who is first learning he is a wizard. The books tell of Harry’s time at school from when he first started
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In the book “J.K. Rowling a Biography” Kirk claims, On June 26, 1997, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, the British Title of book one, was published in hardcover by Bloomsbury. The book goes further on to say how Rowling and her team printed only 500 copies of the book which proved to be not enough as Rowling’s agent told her that the American rights to the book were being auctioned. An online biography (2017) explains the word “Philosopher” in the book’s original title was changed to “Sourcerer” for its publication in America. The biography also informs that the book was the start of a seven part series chronicling the life of the young wizard Harry Potter and his friend Ron Weasley and Hermoine Granger at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and WIzardry. In this book, Harry learns he is a wizard and becomes acquainted with the wizard world. He discovers who he is and what happened to his parents. The Encyclopedia of World Biography claims that, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone proved to be the best-selling children’s book in decades (2005). The article also quotes Rowling says “I thought I’d written something that a handful of people might like. So this has been something of a shock,” on January Online. Gale Student Resources in Context (2007) states several of Rowling’s awards, including the British Book Award, the Children’s Book of the Year, and the Nestlė Smarties Gold Award in 1997. The article goes on to say that the book also became a success in the united states earning six literacy awards. However this is just one of Rowling’s prosperous
In the book “J.K. Rowling a Biography” Kirk claims, On June 26, 1997, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, the British Title of book one, was published in hardcover by Bloomsbury. The book goes further on to say how Rowling and her team printed only 500 copies of the book which proved to be not enough as Rowling’s agent told her that the American rights to the book were being auctioned. An online biography (2017) explains the word “Philosopher” in the book’s original title was changed to “Sourcerer” for its publication in America. The biography also informs that the book was the start of a seven part series chronicling the life of the young wizard Harry Potter and his friend Ron Weasley and Hermoine Granger at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and WIzardry. In this book, Harry learns he is a wizard and becomes acquainted with the wizard world. He discovers who he is and what happened to his parents. The Encyclopedia of World Biography claims that, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone proved to be the best-selling children’s book in decades (2005). The article also quotes Rowling says “I thought I’d written something that a handful of people might like. So this has been something of a shock,” on January Online. Gale Student Resources in Context (2007) states several of Rowling’s awards, including the British Book Award, the Children’s Book of the Year, and the Nestlė Smarties Gold Award in 1997. The article goes on to say that the book also became a success in the united states earning six literacy awards. However this is just one of Rowling’s prosperous