Rowling describes Harry Potter on her personal website as follows:

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As I embarked on a solo trip on a crowded train to London, Harry Potter came to mind.

I've been writing nonstop since I was 6 years old, but I've never been so excited about an idea until then. At the time, I was facing the biggest dilemma of my life, I couldn't find a pen to write and I was ashamed to borrow money

I don't have a pen that works, but I think it's a really good idea. I sat down and started thinking about it, sketching out all the details in 4 hours (the train was delayed by 4 hours).

This scrawny, bespectacled, dark-haired boy who had never thought of himself as a wizard before became more real. If I catch an idea and put it down on paper, I may be slowing it out (sometimes I wonder how much of what I thought of on that trip was forgotten before I actually put pen to paper?).

I began to write The Mysterious Philosopher's Stone every evening, although none of the first few pieces of paper resembled the final draft. ”

As soon as Rowling arrived at her terminus, Clapham Crossing, she immediately began to write.

In 1990, Rowling's mother died of a 10-year episode of multiple sclerosis. "I wrote Harry Potter when my mother died, but I didn't tell her I had it. 」

This seismic change had a profound impact on Rowling and affected her writing, and she believes that many details of The Mysterious Philosopher's Stone were lost at this time, because she still remembers how it felt.

The Guardian mentions that Rowling had moved to Porto, Portugal's second-largest city. Teach English locally.

She taught at night and wrote during the day while listening to Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto.

She met Portuguese journalist George Arantis at a bar to talk about Jane and Austen, whose books were their common interests.

In 1992, Rowling married Arantis, by which time they already had a child, named Jessica Isabel Rowling Arantis. Previously, Rowling had miscarriages.

The two divorced in 1993, ending their 13-month and one-day marriage. Biographers write that Rowling had suffered domestic violence at the time, but was not concerned about that marriage. The full details are still unknown.

George Arantis in an interview with the Daily Express. He mentioned that on their last night, he dragged Rowling out of the house and beat her on the head at 5 a.m.

1993 year. Rowling and her daughter moved back to Scotland, England. Lives near Rowling's sister's home in Edinburgh. The trunk contained three completed chapters of the Philosopher's Stone manuscript.

By this time, Rowling had graduated from Exeter University for seven years, and she derided herself as "the most failed person I've ever met." Her marriage ended in failure. She had no job and a child waiting to be fed, but she described the failure as a relief:

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Failure means getting rid of what is not necessary, I stop deceiving myself, I just stay true to myself, and put all my heart and soul into the only important work.

If I had been successful elsewhere before, I might never have had the determination to devote myself to a field that I believe is truly mine.

I'm free! Because my greatest fears have come, and I'm still alive, and I have a lovely daughter, and an old typewriter and great ideas.

Once fell to the bottom of the deep valley, but it has become a deep foundation for rebirth in the future. —J.K. Rowling, "The Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination"

During that low period, Rowling was diagnosed with clinical depression and attempted suicide.

The feeling of darkness during the onset of depression became the inspiration for Rowling to create the creature Hysteria, a dark creature in Harry Potter that sucks away on the positive emotions and even the soul of humans.

Rowling received social assistance from the government, describing the economic situation as "poor even in modern Britain, but not homeless".

Rowling's condition was exacerbated when her ex-husband visited their mother and daughter in the UK. She applied to the court for a protective order to force Alandis to return to Portugal on her own, in 1994.

While training as a teacher at the Morey School of Education at the University of Edinburgh, she completed her first novel and improved her financial situation.

Rowling has written at many cafes, including Nicolsons Café and The ElephantHouse, where she takes her sleeping daughter with her.

In a 2001 interview with the BBC, Rowling denied that she was writing in a café because of rumours that her home was unheated: "I wasn't stupid enough to rent an unheated house in the middle of winter in Edinburgh. I have heating in my house. 」

She said on the American TV show "Biography" that taking her baby for a walk is a way to keep him asleep, which is why she chose to write in a café.

In 2001, Rowling and anesthesiologist Neil Murray had a private wedding in Alberty, Scotland. Their eldest son, David Gordon Rowling Murray, was born in 2003, when Rowling was about to start writing "The Betrayal of the Half-Blood Prince" and she had to take a break from writing to take care of the baby.

Rowling's youngest daughter, Mackenzie Jane, Rowling Murray, was born in 2005 when she was focusing on writing The Betrayal of the Half-Blood Prince. The Rowling family lives in Edinburgh, England.

In 2004, Forbes listed Rowling as the first writer to become a billionaire through writing, and the 1,062nd richest human being in the world.

Rowling questioned the calculation, saying that although she was rich, she was not yet a billionaire. In addition, in 2008, Rowling was ranked as the 144th richest person in the UK by the Sunday Times Rich List, and in 2012, Forbes removed Rowling from the rich list, claiming that she was no longer a billionaire because of her large donations (about $160 million) and the high tax rates imposed on her in the United Kingdom.

In 2013, BBR Radio 4's Women's Time named Rowling the 13th most powerful woman in the UK.

Writing career

In 1995, Rowling used an old manual typewriter to complete the original manuscript of Harry Potter - The Mysterious Philosopher's Stone.

Her work was recognized by Brian Anne Evans, a business manager at the literary agent Christopher Little, who decided to introduce the manuscript to Little after reading three chapters of Rowling's work.

Previously, Rowling had submitted to 12 publishers, but all of them were rejected.

Little introduced Rowling's work to Bloomsbury, a London publishing house, where its editor, Berry Conning, paid £1,500 for Rowling's manuscript.

Harry Potter - The Mysterious Philosopher's Stone may be made possible thanks to the publisher's 8-year-old daughter, Alice Newton, who immediately asked her father about the follow-up after reading the first chapter.

Although Bloomsbury agreed to publish Rowling's work, Cornham suggested that Rowling get a full-time job because he didn't think Rowling could make money writing children's books.

However, in 1997, Rowling received an £8,000 grant from the Scottish Arts Association to encourage her to continue writing.

In 1997, Bloomsbury officially published Harry Potter - The Mysterious Philosopher's Stone, with the first 1,000 copies, of which 500 will become library collections.

These 1,000 books are worth around £16,000 to £25,000 today. Five months after its publication, Rowling won its first award: the Nestlé Smart Bean Children's Book Award.

It went on to win the National Book Award for Best Children's Book of the Year.

In 1998, the U.S. rights to Harry Potter - The Mysterious Philosopher's Stone were won by Scholastic Inc. at an auction for $105,000.

Rowling said that when she heard the news, she was "[happy] dying."

In 1998, Scholastic Inc. officially published Harry Potter - The Mysterious Philosopher's Stone. (To be continued......)