J. K. Rowling

By Sophia Khaliq

Hi! Grab a biscuit and listen to my story! I am Joanne Kathleen Rowling, better known as J. K. Rowling. I am an author and have written many different books! The first book I wrote was at six years old and I wrote my book about a rabbit. It was called Rabbit. The second book I wrote was about diamonds and people who owned them. I was eleven when I wrote that book, and that was when I knew I wanted to be a writer. I have worked my whole life trying to get to this point. When I was twenty, during my lunch hours I wrote books, and novels. I have always known in my heart that I was destined to be an author, these are my works!

The series I am most known for is called Harry Potter, and the first book revolves around an eleven-year-old wizard who finds trouble waiting for him at every corner! This wizard, Harry Potter, has two friends, Ronald Weasley, and Hermione Granger. They became friends at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where they learn how to use their magic! Through my books they get into all kinds of trouble trying to defeat an evil wizard known as Lord Voldemort, who killed Harry's parents.

There have been movies made from all my books, and even one of my add-on books to the Harry Potter series, Beedle the Bard, Quidditch Through the Ages, and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them! Beedle the Bard is full of wizarding children's bedtime stories like; The Warlock's Hairy Heart, The Wizard and the Hopping Pot, The Fountain of Fair Fourtune, Babbity Rabbity and the Cackling Stump, and the most famous one, The Tale of Three Brothers.

On the other hand, Quidditch Through the Ages is about the only sport in Harry Potter, Quidditch. The book tells all about how Quidditch started, how the golden snitch was made, did you know that they used to catch birds called golden snidgets until an inventor decided to replicate the effects on a small ball, then the book talks about how Quidditch is today versus in the past.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is an add on book to the Harry Potter series. It is a textbook used for one of the classes in Hogwarts, Care of Magical Creatures. There have been two movies based around Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. The first movie, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, is all about Grindelwald, who was before Harry Potter's time. Both movies take place in the United States, which in the movie is called MACUSA, The Magical Congress of the United States of America.

I have also written under a pen name. My pen name is Robert Gailbrath and I have written adult fiction under that pen name. Some of my books are, The Casual Vacancy, The Cuckoos Calling, and Lethal White. I wanted to feel what it would be like without the pressure on me with a new book coming out. It was nice until it was revealed that I was the one that wrote those books, the books shot up the best sellers list and flew off the shelf. The only problem was that I lost my anonymity.