J K Rowling was born on July 31st, 1965 in Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England. Her full name is Joanne Kathleen. J.K. Rowling has one sister, Di, who was born 2 years after J K. J.K. Rowling claims that she has actually been writing since she was 5 or 6 years old. Her first story, called Rabbit, was filled with amusing and realistic characters, such as a large bee called Miss Bee. Quite strange indeed. <Tab/&…showed first 75 words of 862 total…

…showed last 75 words of 862 total…was written, with a first printing of 5.3 million. Because of her great success on the New York Times bestseller list, the decision was made to introduce a bestseller list for children's books, which would eliminate the factor of these bestsellers on the current The New York Times bestseller list. This brought a tremendous amount of relief and happiness to a lot of competing authors. She continues writing today and plans to write seven Potter books.