“It’s one of my favourite places on earth.”Īfter her degree, she moved to London and worked in a series of jobs, including one as a researcher at Amnesty International. “I lived in Paris for a year as a student,” Jo tweeted after the 2015 terrorist attacks there. Her knowledge of Classics would one day come in handy for creating the spells in the Harry Potter series, some of which are based on Latin. Jo studied at Exeter University, where she read so widely outside her French and Classics syllabus that she clocked up a fine of £50 for overdue books at the University library. At just eleven, she wrote her first novel – about seven cursed diamonds and the people who owned them.
She wrote her first book at the age of six – a story about a rabbit, called ‘Rabbit’. Jo wanted to be a writer from an early age. “I was your basic common-or-garden bookworm, complete with freckles and National Health spectacles.” The young Jo grew up surrounded by books. Anne was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when Jo was a teenager and died in 1990, before the Harry Potter books were published.
Her father, Peter, was an aircraft engineer at the Rolls Royce factory in Bristol and her mother, Anne, was a science technician in the Chemistry department at Wyedean Comprehensive, where Jo herself went to school.
Joanne Rowling was born on 31st July 1965 at Yate General Hospital near Bristol, and grew up in Gloucestershire in England and in Chepstow, Gwent, in south-east Wales.
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