Harry Potter And The Sorcere's Stone

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J.K. Rowling was born July 31, 1965. J.K Rowling created the Harry Potter books. J.K Rowling struggled throughout her life before getting her Harry Potter books were published. She graduated from Exeter University; then she moved to Portugal to teach English. While she was in Portugal she married a guy name Jorge Arantes. J.K. Rowling ended up having a daughter named Jessica with him. Then J.K. and her daughter moved back to here hometown, Edinburgh. She was a single mother trying to support on welfare. Even though she was struggling J.K. Rowling manage to find time to write here books. She got rejected twelve time before someone gave her book a chance which was “Harry Potter and the Sorcere’s Stone”. Rowling made so much money by making

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