Joanne Kathleen Rowling or better known as J.K. Rowling is an extraordinary author of fictional characters in the top-selling book Harry Potter. She created the character of this young wizard boy who can be able to fight Voldemort, the main antagonist in the story. Stephen King, also a famous author, complimented Rowling by saying “Jo Rowling is a terrific writer”. J.K. Rowling even at an early age has a passion to write fantasy stories. She wrote the story entitled Rabbit when she was about five or six years old. Even though she experienced a lot of problems especially when her mother died and when she raised her first-born child as a single parent she never gave up and used these trials as an inspiration to meet success. The goal of this essay is not only to make the readers know about the life of J.K. Rowling but also to show on the challenges she’d gone through and how she handled these trials in her life, and believe that magical things happen to those who strived for their ultimate goals. …show more content…
J.K. Rowling was born on 31 July 1965 in Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England. Her given name at birth was Joanne Kathleen. Ms. Rowling has one sister, Di, who was born two years after J.K. Ms. Rowling used to call herself “Jo” as a nickname. Their family moved twice as “Jo” was growing up. There, in one of their houses in Winterbourne, she had friends with their neighbor whose last name was Potter. J.K. Rowling, even at her young age has a vivid type of imagination. When she was about five or six years old, she wrote a story about a Rabbit, who got measles and was visited by his friends and a gigantic bee called Ms.