Harry Potter And The Socerers Stone

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone
By J.K. Rowling
J.K. Rowling was a struggling single mother when she wrote the beginnings of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s stone on scraps of paper at a local Café. But her efforts soon paid off, as she received an unprecedented award from the Scottish Arts Council enabling her to finish the book. Since then, the debut novel has become an international phenomenon, garnering rave reviews and major awards, including the British Book Awards, Children’s Book of the Year and the Smarties Prize. J.K. Rowling lives in Edinburgh with her daughter.
Since J.K. Rowling was about five or six years old,

She had always wanted to be a writer, though she rarely

told anyone because she was afraid

they’d tell her she didn’t have a chance. As J.K. Rowling

approached teen-hood she started writing a lot mainly about

funny fantasy like stories. When J.K. Rowling was

working as a secretary she never paid much attention in

her meetings because she was usually scribbling bits of her

latest stories in the margins of the paper or choosing

excellent names for the characters in her book. Which

became a problem since she was supposed to be taking

minutes down at the meeting. When she was 26 she gave up

on offices completely and went abroad to teach English as

A Foreign Language in Brazil. Since she only worked

afternoons and evenings she had mornings free for writing.

This was particularly good news as she had now started her

third novel because the first two had been abandoned when

she realized how bad they were. The new book was about a

boy who found out he was a wizard and was sent off to

Wizard school. When she came back from Brazil she had half

a suitcase full of papers covered with stories about Harry

Potter. She set a goal and decided to have the Harry Potter

Novel done before starting work as a French teacher.
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