Who Makes Harry Potter a Great Success? ---J. K. Rowling

Whether you like Harry Potter or not, the success of its author J. K. Rowling is no doubt.Harry Potter is now a worldwide brand worth about US$15 billion.

Rowling went suffer a hard time before the arrival of her books.

Rowling liked writing fantasy stories since she's a child.

(Rowling's childhood home, Church Cottage, Tutshill, Gloucestershire)

In 1990, the idea for a novel of a young boy going a school of wizardry came into her mind when she was on a train to London.She wrote things down once she arrived at her flat.

She married in 1992 and had a daughter, but she suffered abuse so divorced.

It's the seven years since she graduated, she regarded herself as a failure. However, she expressed her failure as liberating so that she can concentrate on writing.

(she returned to the UK and wrote chapters)

In 1995, she completed the manuscript for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. It had been rejected by twelve publishing houses before get approved by editor Barry Cunningham (from Bloomsbury) a year later.

She insisted writing during years. The seventh book named Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was delivered on 21 July 2007 and it became the fastest-selling book.In the first day, it sold 11 million copies in the UK and America.