when writing the first book of Harry Potter, Rowling is struggling to make her ends meet, living on Govt welfare. a rags to riches stories. Born in Yate, England, on July 31, 1965, J.K. Rowling came from humble economic means before writing Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone, a childrens fantasy novel. A graduate of Exeter University, Rowling moved to Portugal in 1990 to teach English. There, she met and married the Portuguese journalist Jorge Arantes. The couples daughter, Jessica, was born in 1993. After her marriage ended in divorce, Rowling moved to Edinburgh with her daughter to live near her younger sister, Di. While struggling to support Jessica and herself on welfare, Rowling worked on a book, the idea for which had reportedly occurred to her while she was traveling on a train from Manchester to London in 1990. After a number of rejections, she finally sold the book, Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone (the word Philosopher was changed to Sorcerer for its publication in America), for the equivalent of about $4,000. biography/people/jk-rowling-40998#early-struggles
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