Blog Entry # 4.6

1. Name of Notable Person: 
 J.K. Rowling

2.Web Addresses of all Sources (copy and paste)

http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1077326.J_K_Rowling
www.biographyonline.net/people/
http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/biography.cfm
http://biography-books.net/j-k-rowling-a-biography.html
http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/edsites/jkrtimeline.html

3. Biographical Information

a. Date of Birth and Death= July 31, 1965

b. Place of Birth and Death (or current residence): Bristol, England

c. Family (e.g. parents, siblings, spouse, children)= her parents name are Ann and Peter Rowling, she also has a younger sister Dianne.

d. Education= she first went to Tutshill Primary School.

e. Occupation= she is an author of a highly popular series Harry Potter.

4. Two-three Quotes (either about the person of from the person)

"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

 

"It is our choices, Harry, that show us who we truly are, far more than our abilities."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

5. Significant contribution(s) to World History

J. K. Rowling is the author of the phenomenal best selling Harry Potter series.

She is credited to the revival of childrens reading.

6. Ten terms related to the person

Muggle, Slitherin, Dumbledore, Hogwarts, Quidditch, Leaky Leona, Azkerban,
Deathly Hallows, Voldemort, Professor Snape. Hagrid 

7. Timeline of at least five important dates in the person’s life.

1994 Tells Di the story of Harry Potter. Fortunately, Di loves it. Rowling is living in one-bedroom flat, can't get a place in state-sponsored day care for Jessica, and can't afford private child care without a job. Experiences brief period of severe depression (inspiring the DEMENTORS who suck happy memories from mortals and drive them to despair). February 1997 Scottish Arts Council gives her a record grant for a children's author, £8,000 ($13,000). Rowling buys a computer in order to finish the second book

Gets by on income support of £69 ($105) per week. Writes Harry Potter on notepads in cafes around Edinburgh, fueled by the occasional espresso while Jessica naps in her buggy. Continues scribbling in evenings. "I really wrote it entirely for myself."

July 1999 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban published in Britain, knocking Thomas Harris' Hannibal out of the No. 1 spot on the bestseller list. The New York Times has Harry Potter books in the top three positions on its bestseller list. An unprecedented feat. Warner Bros. buys the film rights to the first two books.

Rowling demands that they be live-action movies, not animations, and that she have script approval. She says that she's particularly looking forward to seeing Quidditch matches on the big screen and she hopes that Hagrid will be played by Robbie Coltrane. Mattel Inc., of Barbie fame, buys the merchandising rights to Harry Potter.

1999 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets won the 1999 Federation of Children's Book Groups Children's Book Awards. The award is unique in that children are the testers and decide the winner.

2000 Rowling makes Forbes' annual Celebrity 100 list as the 24th-highest celebrity earner in the world, having earned $40 million in 1999, easily beating fellow scribes Grisham, Koontz and Crichton. Steve Kloves, director of The Fabulous Baker Boys, starts writing screenplay for the movie.

March 2000 Worldwide sales of the first three Harry Potter books stands at more than 30 million in 31 languages. Each of the books has held the No. 1 position on The New York Times bestseller list.

July 8, 2000 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, published simultaneously in Britain and the United States. In what is said to be the biggest first run in history, over 5 million copies of "Goblet of Fire" were printed in the United States and Britain.

The book also won rave reviews from e-merchants which took 400,000 advance orders

2000 Rowling makes Forbes' annual Celebrity 100 list as the 24th-highest celebrity earner in the world, having earned $40 million in 1999, easily beating fellow scribes Grisham, Koontz and Crichton.
Steve Kloves, director of The Fabulous Baker Boys, starts writing screenplay for the movie.

March 2000 Worldwide sales of the first three Harry Potter books stands at more than 30 million in 31 languages. Each of the books has held the No. 1 position on The New York Times bestseller list.

March 2, 2001 Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling today received the title Officer of the Order of the British Empire, or OBE, from H.R.H. Prince Charles.