J.K. Rowling is a British author best known for the Harry Potter book series. She was born in 1965 in England and taught English in Portugal before beginning work on the Harry Potter series in 1990. The books were enormously popular worldwide, selling over 500 million copies and spawning a blockbuster film franchise. However, the series also faced some legal issues over plagiarism and copyright claims.

1. By George Anderson Jr.
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2. J.K. Rowling
 Born in 1965
 Has three children
 Taught in Portugal as an English teacher.
 Worked for five years on the story’s plots
for each book before writing out the first
manuscript.
 She couldn’t afford to copy her manuscript,
so she typed out four copies of her
manuscript on her old typewriter.
 Worlds first Billionaire author.

3.  Nestle Smarties Book Prize  Primo Centro per la
 Carnegie Medal Letteratura Infantile (Italy)
 Guardian Children's Fiction  Prix Sorciere (France)
Prize  Royal Mail Award for Scottish
 British Book Awards Lifetime
Children's Books
Achievement
 Chevalier de la Legion
 Edinburgh Award
d’Honneur (France)

5. 1990
 The idea for the book came while she was
waiting at a train station.
 Her mother dies of cancer. This affects how she
writes concerning Harry’s parents death.
1993
 She fought bouts of depression streaming from
divorce and her mothers death. This feeling of
desperation and loneliness gave her the
inspiration for the dementors.
1995
 She writes whenever and wherever she can, from
café’s to bus stops. She completes the first book.
Her literary agent warns her "You do realize, you
will never make a fortune out of writing
children's books?”

6. 1996
Bloomsbury Press accepts book and
gives her a $4000 advance.
1997
 US Rights Sold to Scholastic. They gave her
a $100,000 advance. She is now able to quit
her job and devote her time to writing.
1998
 The Second book is released in UK.
 The first book had it’s name changed,
chapter Illustrations added, and is then
released to the US. It’s first run was 50,000
copies.

7. 1999
 In June the second book is published in the US
with 250,000 copies.
 In July the third book is released in the UK and
sells over 68,000 in two days.
 In September the third book is release in the
US with a run of 500,000 copies.
2000
 In June the fourth book is released in both US
and UK with a combined first run of over
5,000,000 copies.
 In August Daniel Radcliff, Emma Watson, and
Rupert Grint are chosen to be the actors for the
movie/s.
Due to the series popularity, children’s
book received it’s own pop list.

8. 2001
 In the US, the first movie was seen on 3,762
movie screens, and set a record take of $90
million.
2002
 Richard Harris, the actor who played
Dumbledore dies.
 In November, the second film takes in $88
million.
2003
 The fifth book is released in the US with a first
run of 6.4 million copies.
 This is the longest of the books with 870 pages.

9. 2004
 The third film takes in $97 million
2005
 The sixth book is released in the US with a first run
of 10.8 million copies.
 Braille edition released.
 The fourth film takes in $101 million.
2007
 The seventh and final book is released in the US
with first day sales of over 11 million copies.
 In July the fifth film takes in $144 million in the US,
and $330 million worldwide.
2009
 The sixth movie takes in $394 million in 5 days, and
$934 million worldwide.

14.  1999- Copyright-The legend of Rah and the Muggles
 2003- Illegal Books-Harry Potter and leopard-walk-up-to-
Dragon(Chinese)/Harry Potter in Calcutta(Indian).
 2005- Trademark- Weird Sisters “Wyrd Sisters”
 2009- Plagiarism–The adventures of Willy Wizard: A Livid Land
 2010- Jesus Potter, Harry Christ-Church of England said she stole from bible.
Just Kidding 
 2011- American Christian – magic in Harry Potter promotes
witchcraft in children

15. “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I
thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put
away childish things.”
1Corinthians 13:15

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