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J K Rowling
J K (Joanne Kathleen) Rowling has written fiction since she was a child and always aspired to be an author. Her parents were avid bibliophiles who stocked their house with books. Jo enjoyed telling her made up stories to her younger sister, Di, and wrote her first `book' at the age of six - a story about a rabbit called Rabbit!
She started writing the Harry Potter series after the idea occurred to her on an interminable Manchester to London train journey, where she admits Harry "just strolled into my head fully formed". She rushed home to jot down her ideas as soon as the train reached King's Cross station and during the next five years, outlined the plots for each book and began writing the novel.
J K Rowling was voted author of the year at the 1999 British Book Awards (Nibbies) and won the Booksellers Association Author of the Year award two years in a row (1998 and 1999). She won the W H Smith Children's Book of the Year for 2000. She was awarded an OBE for services to children's literature in June 2000.
J K Rowling is an ambassador for One Parent Families and the patron of The Multiple Sclerosis Society Scotland.
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