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J.K. Rowling is the extraordinary author of the best-selling series, 

Harry Potter. 

When Jo was nine, she went to the school, Tutshill Primary.

At Tutshill, the teachers arranged the seats by smartness.

Jo took a fractions test and failed and had to sit on the  

''bad'' side of the room. Jo was not sad to leave Tutshill behind to go to a 

different school, Wyedean Comprehensive.

At eleven years old, Jo went to the school, Wyedean Comprehensive.

While Jo was at Wyedean, a tough girl picked a fight with her. Jo stood 

up to the girl and became famous throughout the school for it.

   Meanwhile, at Jo's house, her life changed forever. Her mother had 

gotten the disease called Multiple Sclerosis. Jo was especially sad since 

she relied on her mother a lot, due to the fact that her father was always 

at work and she hardly ever saw him.

   However, Jo's school life got better when she was elected Head Girl in 

her last year at Wyedean Comprehensive.

When Jo graduated from the University of Exeter in 1987, 

she worked as a secretary at Amnesty International and 

moved to Clapham, a neighborhood in South London.

One weekend, Jo took a trip to Manchester to look at flats, or 

apartments. After looking at the flats, Jo rode a train all the way back 

to London. Jo stared out of the window, thinking of nothing.

Suddenly, an image of a boy popped into Jo's head. She reached into 

her bag for a pen but didn't find one and went back to staring out the 

window.Soon, Jo thought more about the boy. He was a wizard, but 

he didn't know it. Jo thought about the boy's wizard and witch 

friends. There were a best friend named Ron and a clever girl named 

Hermione.

    When Jo got home, she found a pen and notebook and wrote the 

boy's name at the top. His name was Harry Potter!

Soon after Jo got the great idea of Harry Potter her 

happiness plummeted down to sadness. Her mother 

had died. Anne had been sick for a very long time, 

yet neither Jo, nor her sister, nor her father, 

believed that she would die. But now, the thing that 

had been too terrible to believe had happened.

To lift her spirits, Jo decided to teach English in Oporto, Portugal. While Jo was there, 

she met a journalist named Jorge Arantes.She fell in love with him and they got 

married in 1992. A year later, Jo had a baby named Jessica. She loved her new baby 

but her marriage was not a happy one. So Jo left Portugal and Jorge, only bringing 

Jessica and the Harry Potter chapters back home.

Jo and baby Jessica went to live in Edinburgh, Scotland. Di, Jo's sister, was 

already living there with her husband. More than anything Jo wanted to finish her 

book. Whenever Jessica fell asleep, Jo would write as much and as fast as she 

could. She would also go to Di's husband's cafe, Nicolson's Cafe. There, Jo could 

write and write and then take a sip of her cooled coffee. Jo also wrote in other 

cafes and coffee shops such as the Elephant House Cafe. But at Nicolson's Jo 

could sit and write for hours at a time.

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