第1个回答 推荐于2018-04-11
J·K·罗琳简介
J.K.罗琳,现年34岁。罗琳自小喜欢写作和讲故事。24岁那年,她在前往伦敦的火车旅途中,一个瘦弱、戴着眼镜的黑发小巫师一直在车窗外对着她微笑。7年后,罗琳把这个名叫哈利·波特的男孩的故事推向了世界,哈利·波特成为风靡全球的童话人物。
作为一位单身母亲,罗琳母女的生活极其艰辛。在开始写作“哈利·波特”系列儿童小说的第一部《哈利·波特与魔法石》时,罗琳因为自家的屋子又小又冷,时常到住家附近的一家咖啡馆里把哈利·波特的故事写在小纸片上。不过,她的努力很快得到了回报。小说一出版便备受瞩目,好评如潮,大奖频至,其中包括英国国家图书奖儿童小说奖,以及斯马蒂图书金奖章奖。随后,罗琳又分别于1998年与1999年创作了《哈利·波特与密室》和《哈利·波特与阿兹卡班的囚徒》,进一步轰动了世界。2000年7月,随着第四部《哈利·波特与火杯》的问世,世界范围的“哈利·波特”热持续升温,创造了出版史上的神话。据悉,罗琳女士的“哈利·波特”系列将还有三部作品。
罗琳女士现和女儿住在爱丁堡。本回答被网友采纳
第3个回答 2006-02-27
J·K·罗琳简介
J.K.罗琳,现年34岁。罗琳自小喜欢写作和讲故事。24岁那年,她在前往伦敦的火车旅途中,一个瘦弱、戴着眼镜的黑发小巫师一直在车窗外对着她微笑。7年后,罗琳把这个名叫哈利·波特的男孩的故事推向了世界,哈利·波特成为风靡全球的童话人物。
作为一位单身母亲,罗琳母女的生活极其艰辛。在开始写作“哈利·波特”系列儿童小说的第一部《哈利·波特与魔法石》时,罗琳因为自家的屋子又小又冷,时常到住家附近的一家咖啡馆里把哈利·波特的故事写在小纸片上。不过,她的努力很快得到了回报。小说一出版便备受瞩目,好评如潮,大奖频至,其中包括英国国家图书奖儿童小说奖,以及斯马蒂图书金奖章奖。随后,罗琳又分别于1998年与1999年创作了《哈利·波特与密室》和《哈利·波特与阿兹卡班的囚徒》,进一步轰动了世界。2000年7月,随着第四部《哈利·波特与火杯》的问世,世界范围的“哈利·波特”热持续升温,创造了出版史上的神话。据悉,罗琳女士的“哈利·波特”系列将还有三部作品。
罗琳女士现和女儿住在爱丁堡。
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第4个回答 2006-03-03
Biography for
J.K. Rowling
Birth name
Joanne Rowling
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Nickname
Jo
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Height
5' 5" (1.65 m)
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Mini biography
Joanne Rowling was born in Yate, near Bristol, a few miles south of a town called Dursley (Harry Potter's muggle-family). Her father Peter Rowling was an engineer for Rolls Royce in Bristol at this time. Her mother, Anne, was half-French and half-Scottish. They met on a train as it left King's Cross Station in London. Her sister Diana is about 2 years younger than Joanne. In 1971, Peter Rowling moved his family to the nearby village of Winterbourne (still in the Bristol vicinity). During the family's residence in Winterbourne, Jo and Di Rowling were friends with neighborhood children, Ian and Vikki Potter. In 1974, the Rowling family moved yet again, this time to Tutshill, near the Welsh border town of Chepstow (in the Forest of Dean) and across the Severn River from the greater Bristol area. Rowling admits to having been a bit of a daydreamer as a child and began writing stories at the age of six. After leaving Exeter University, where she read French and Classics, she started work as a teacher but daydreamed about becoming a writer. One day, stuck on a delayed train for four hours between Manchester and London, she dreamt up a boy called Harry Potter. That was in 1990. It took her six years to write the book. In the meantime she went to teach in Portugal, married a Portuguese TV journalist, had her daughter, Jessica, divorced her husband and returned to Britain when Jessica was just three months old. She went to live in Edinburgh to be near her sister, Di. Her sudden penury made her realise that it was "back-against-the-wall time" and she decided to finish her Harry Potter book. She sent the manuscript to two agents and one publisher, looking up likely prospects in the library. One of these agents that she picked at random based on the fact that she liked his name, Christopher Little, was immediately captivated by the manuscript and signed her on as his client within three days. During the 1995-1996 timeframe, while hoping to get the manuscript for Philosopher's Stone published, Rowling worked as a French teacher in Edinburgh. Several publishers turned down the manuscript before Bloomsbury agreed to purchase it in 1996.
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Spouse
Neil Murray (26 December 2001 - present) 2 children
Jorge Arantes (16 October 1992 - 30 November 1993) (divorced) 1 child
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Trivia
Graduated from Exeter University
Is a former English teacher
She writes all of her books in longhand, rather than with a computer.
Daughter, Jessica Rowling Arantes was born on July 27, 1993
Her book, 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire', was the top-selling book of 2000, with 7 million hardcovers sold.
When the first Harry Potter novel was published, the publisher asked her to use initials rather than her first name because boys would be biased against a book written a woman. Since she only had one given name, they then asked her to make up another initial; she took K. from her favorite grandmother, Kathleen.
She was awarded the O.B.E. (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) and received it from one of her fans, Charles, the Prince of Wales.
Son, David Gordon Rowling, born March 24, 2003 in Edinburgh
In 2002, she was sued for plagiarism in the District Court of the Southern District of New York by Pennsylvania-based author Nancy Stouffer who claimed that J K Rowling had lifted ideas from her 1984 book The Legend of Rah and Muggles, which includes a character called Larry Potter. However the case against J K Rowling was dismissed on 19 September 2002 when the judged ruled that Ms Stouffer had lied to the court and doctored evidence to support her claims.
Is one of only two contemporary authors to have a novel spend more than a year on both the New York Times hardcover and paperback best-seller lists (the other author being Nicholas Sparks)
As of November 2002 (the year and month of the second Harry Potter movie being released) her franchise of books have currently sold over 175,000,000 copies and printed in over 200 languages to become the biggest and fastest selling novels ever.
On 3 April 2003 she and Time Warner successfully sued Dutch publishing company Byblos in the Amsterdam High Court. This prevents Byblos publishing Russian author Dmitry Yemets' novel "The Magic Double Bass" which features a girl wizard Tanya Grotter. It was deemed to plagiarise Rowling's novel "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" and to infringe her copyright.
Her latest book, titled "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," was published on June 21, 2003. It was approximately 896 pages long, containing 38 chapters and over 255,000 words (her longest Harry Potter book yet). The first U.S. printing was 8.5 million copies, an American publishing record.
In 2003, unauthorized Chinese-language "sequels" to the Harry Potter series appeared for sale in the People's Republic of China. These poorly written books (written by Chinese ghost writers) contain characters from the works of other authors, including Gandalf from J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings", and the title character from L. Frank Baum's "The Wizard of Oz". Rowling's lawyers successfully took legal action against the publishers who were forced to pay damages.
She is a big fan of the rock band The Smiths and in 2003 she appeared on the Channel Four documentary "The Importance of Being Morrissey".
Two apparent references to the Monty Python sketch "Crunchy Frog" can be found in her Harry Potter books: two of the sweets are a chocolate frog, and a cockroach cluster. Monty Python member John Cleese appears in the films.
One of her favorite movies is "The Fabulous Baker Boys", which was written and directed by Harry Potter screenwriter Steven Kloves.
She received an honorary degree from Edinburgh University in recognition of the Potter books and her outstanding contribution to children's literature. [7 July 2004]
Her 3rd child, Mackenzie Jean Rowling, was born on January 23, 2005 in Edinburgh
Character names in her books are often clues to their identities or secrets. For example, Professor Remus Lupin is a werewolf. According to myth, Romulus and Remus were the founders of Rome, and were raised by wolves. His last name, Lupin, is derived from the Latin lupus, for wolf, and the English adjective lupine, meaning wolf-like. Lupin was converted into a werewolf by Fenrir Greyback, whose name is taken from Fenrir, the monstrous wolf son of Loki in Norse mythology. (His alias, Fenrisulfr, was the basis for Fenris Ulf, the American name for Maugrim in C.S. Lewis's Chronciles of Narnia.) Sirius Black, who turns into a black dog, is named for the star Sirius, which can be found in the constellation Canis Major - the big dog.
Whilst at University, she had little money, so for friends birthdays, she wrote them personal little stories.
Shares the same birthday with Michael Klesic, Wesley Snipes, Ben Chaplin, Barry Van Dyke, Emilia Fox and Loren Dean.
Has three children: Jessica, David & Mackenzie
After spending six years writing the first instalment of her "Harry Potter" novels, Rowling was rejected by 9 publishers before London's Bloomsbury Publishing signed her on
The day she signed her contract for the first Harry Potter novel, the publishing representative told her she would not make any money selling children's books.
Originally wrote Harry Potter to pay off her gas bills while living in a tiny flat with her then, baby daughter.
Although she incorporates characteristics of people she knows into Harry Potter characters, she says that the character Gilderoy Lockhart is the only character she purposely based on someone she knew. She would not say who she based the character on, only that it was not her ex-husband, and that whoever it was is probably so ignorant and so narcissistic, that he is probably claiming either to be the basis for Albus Dumbledore, or the real author of the Harry Potter books.
Claims her first audience for Harry Potter was her daughter, whom she would read parts of the story that she wrote to as a bedtime story.
Is a huge fan of Monty Python and claims to put some of their humor into her books.
Owens two properties in the Perthshire and Edinburgh areas of Scotland. In 2003, she hired a former SAS officer as her bodyguard to patrol her Perth home and protect her family.
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Personal quotes
Asked by an interviewer about the next Harry Potter book: "Well, it will be a papery object with pages inside."
Discussing her daughter, Jessica: "Kids at her school will sidle up to me and say, 'Does Jessica know what happens in book 4? Does Jessica know the title of book 4?' And I keep saying, 'No! There is no point kidnapping her, taking her around back of the bike shed, and torturing her for information.'"
"Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most."
"I had an American journalist say to me, 'Is it true you wrote the whole of the first novel on napkins?' I was tempted to say, 'On teabags, I used to save them.'"
"I gave my hero a talent I'd love to have. Who wouldn't want to fly?"
"The spells are made up. I have met people who assure me, very seriously, that they are trying to do them, and I can assure them, just as seriously, that they don't work."
When asked what the title would be for book six: "It will be called 'Harry Potter and...' something. Catchy, don't you think? And I think I'll follow the same model for seven."
"People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione."
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Where are they now
(2004) Working on the last two books of her popular worldwide masterpiece, Harry Potter
(July 2004) Currently putting the finishing touches on "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", the sixth book in the series. It will get a worldwide release at midnight on July 16th, 2005.
(July 2004) announced she is expecting her third child sometime next year.
(July 2004) Announced she is expecting 3rd child next year
(2005) Her third child was born on January 23, 2005 in Edinburgh.
(June 2005) Wrote and released "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince", the sixth installment of the Harry Potter series.
(November 2005) Currently at work on the final installment of the Harry Potter series. It should be released sometime in 2007.
(December 2005) Working on a new book aimed at younger readers.
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