The Story of J.K. Rowling and Harry Potter

The elder stateswoman of British fantasy literature is J.K. Rowling , the gifted creator of Harry Potter. Joanne Rowling’s roots are in the southwest of England , where she grew up . But the idea for Harry Potter cameto her while she was on a delayed train between Manchester and London. She wrote down her ideas on the back of an envelope . She then went to teach English in Portugal,where she continued to add flesh to the bones of the first Harry Potter story. But her name is forever associated with Edinburgh in Scotland, where she lived and developed the format for the whole series of seven books.
There are many anecdotes about how , in 1990 ,J.K.Rowling began the first draft of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.She had the extra burden of looking after her baby daughter while she worked ,and because she was too poor to own a typewriter,she wrote by hand . She spent many hours over a single cup of coffee in a warm cafeteria in Edinburgh because she had no money to pay for the heating at home.
Success was not swift and Rowling might have given up . But she was stubborn and overcame all the difficulties. It was only in 1997 that she completed the first Harry Potter story,which ,because the publishers in the USA requested an adjustment to the title,was also known as Harry Potterand Sorcerer’s Stone.
Rowling always intended that her output would be a book every year until she had finished the series.In fact ,it took herabout tenyears to complete. But after the first book ,the success of cach of the following titles was automatic.The fifth book,The Orderof the Phoenix sold about seven million copies the day it was published.
Rowling’s stytle has been a target for some criticism,but what makes the books so important is that ,because they appeal to readers of all ages,they creat a special literary bond between parents and children.In an age of computer games and television programmes , it is also claimed they are responsible for a renewed interest in reading. Harry Potter has even became part of the school curriculum,much to the pleasure of the schoolchildren.
And the Harry Potter effect is not just restricted to the English-speaking world. Rowling’s books have been translated into more than 55 languages, and it has been estimated that more than 250 million copies have been distributed around the world .In 2005 it was estimated that Rowling had accumulated more than one billion dollars on deposit in her bank. She has thus attained the status of being the first writer to become a billionaire.

在英国玄幻文学的领衔人物是J。K。罗琳，Harry Potter一书的天才作家。Joanne Rowling出生在英国的西南部，也是她生长的地方。不过Harry Potter这个灵感是当她在Manchester去London的误点火车上是突然闪过的。 她将她的想法写在信封的背面。之后她去了葡萄牙教授英语，就是在那里她不断的充实着自己的第一个Harry Potter的故事。但是她的名字已更多的和英格兰的爱丁堡联系在一起。因为在那里她完成了一系列7本书的构架。

对于这一过程，有很多有趣的奇闻逸事，在1990年J.K.Rowling开始创作了《哈利。波特与魔法石》的第一份草稿。当时她除了工作外还要照顾她刚出生的女儿；更为困难的是她的薪水根本不能负担打字机的费用，只能用手写在之上。她会在爱丁堡找一家温暖的咖啡厅，每天呆上好几个小时却只点一杯咖啡，因为她无法负担在家里开暖气的费用。

成功并不是一蹴而就的，Rowling或许可能已经放弃了，但她是个固执的人，克服了所有的困难。知道1997年她才最终完成了她的第一本Harry Potter的故事，那是因为美国的出版商要求她修改原本的名字，也就是《哈利。波特与魔法石》。

Rowling一直打算每年出版一本书，直到她完成这一系列。事实上，这个系列花费了她大约十年来完成。不过在她的第一本书之后，接下来的几本书的成功几乎就是按部就班的。系列的第五本，凤凰社这本书在出版第一天就卖掉大约700万本。

Rowling的模式也是许多批评的焦点，但是真正使这本书影响深远的，是这本书对任何年龄的人都有吸引力，它使孩子们和家长们有了交流的话题。在一个电脑游戏和电视横行的时代，这本书也被声称为是人们再一次对阅读感兴趣的原因之一。使许多学生们感到高兴的是，Harry Potter甚至成为了有些学校课程的一部分。

而Harry Potter 的影响也不仅仅局限于英语语言国家。Rowling的书已经被翻译成不下55种语言，估计有2亿5千两百万本书被卖往世界各地。在2005年，人们估计Rowling在银行已有累计超过十亿美圆的存款。她因此也成为了第一个通过写作成为一个亿万富翁的人。
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