dropdown J.K. Rowling was born in England in 1965. She loved reading, and wrote her first book named “Rabbit”, when she was 6 years old. She studied French at school, then worked as a secretary in London. This was her first job. dropdown She had the idea about writing the Harry Potter series when she was on a train. “Harry just walked into my head”, she said later. She started writing the first Harry Potter book the next day. In 1992 she went to live in Portugal for three years. She wrote Harry Potter in the morning, and worked as an English teacher in the afternoon and evening. dropdown She got married to a Portuguese TV journalist and had a daughter called Jessica. Then she returned to Britain and lived in Edinburgh. She was unemployed at that time, and wrote in café’s because they were warmer than her small flat which was very cold. dropdown After five years she finished the first book. “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. The book sold millions of copies all over the world, she became very famous and very rich, but she still writes her books in cafés.