J.K. Rowling:Magical Author

-Joanne "Jo" Rowling
-July 30,1965
-Yate, Gloucestershire, England
-Jo is a mother and novelist who used to teach french. She got her start when the idea for Harry Potter came to her on a delayed train ride. She spent several years in cafe's writing the first Harry Potter by hand.
-Jo is an author that draws much inspiration from her life and surroundings. For example when she was dreppresed and contemplating suicide she came up the dementors, beings that exemplified her feelings
-Jo wrote Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone in a cafe where she had to sip one cup of coffee because thats all she could afford.
-Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, British Book Award for Children’s Book of the Year, Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year Award, Author of the Year in the 2000 British Book Awards, Book of the Year prize at the British Book Awards.
-J.K. Rowling is best known for her Harry Potter series. It is a series in which an orphaned boy finds out that he is a wizard. He finds hope and doubts for his future. This series follows the boy wizard as he learns about magic, friends, himself and his past, and most importantly about the power of love and goodness. He finds himself marked to destroy the most evil wizard and he can only succeed with his friends fighting along with him. J.K. Rowling has effected childrens reading habits for the better. She challenged children and teens to expand their reading abilities. By making characters people could relate to she inspired them to read more, in turn looking for more books and ultimately becoming better readers and people. I think people can learn alot from the situations faced and choices made by the characters.
-J.K.Rowling has also given back generously to her community donating to, and setting up several charities. she is and active part of charites like Comic Relief, One Parent Families, Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain, and the Children's High Level Group. One Parent Families and Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain are particularly dear to her because her mother died of Multiple Sclerosis and she was a single parent when she wrote the first Harry Potter.