九年级英语上册Module7GreatbooksUnit2ItisstillreadandlovedJoanneRowling素材外研版

1、joanne rowlingjoanne rowling， obe (born 31 july 1965） is an english fiction writer who writes under the pen name j。 k。 rowling. rowling is the author of the harry potter fantasy series, which has gained international attention, won multiple awards, and sold over 375 million copies worldwide。 in febr

2、uary 2004， forbes magazine estimated her fortune at 576 million (just over us$1 billion）, making her the first person to become a usdollar billionaire by writing books. rowling earned us$75 million in 2005. in 2006， forbes named her the second richest female entertainer in the world， behind talk sho

3、w host oprah winfrey joanne rowling was born at yate, northeast of bristol， south gloucestershire, england on 31 july 1965. her sister dianne （di) was born at their home when rowling was 23 months old. the family moved to the nearby village winterbourne when rowling was four where she attended st mi

4、chaels primary school, later moving to tutshill， near chepstow, south wales at the age of nine. she attended secondary school at wyedean school and college. rowling was good with languages, but did not excel at sports and mathematics. there are numerous welsh references to places, things and people

5、in harry potter， which could be attributed to her time in chepstow。 in december 1990， rowlings mother succumbed to a 10-yearlong battle with multiple sclerosis。 rowling commented, “i was writing harry potter at the moment my mother died. i had never told her about harry potter. after studying french

6、 and classics at the university of exeter (she had previously applied to oxford but was turned down）, with a year of study in paris， she moved to london to work as a researcher and bilingual secretary for amnesty international。 during this period， while she was on a four-hour delayed-train trip betw

7、een manchester and london， she had the idea for a story of a young boy attending a school of wizardry。 when she had reached her clapham junction flat， she began writing immediately. rowling then moved to porto, portugal to teach english as a foreign language. while there, she married portuguese tele

8、vision journalist jorge arantes on 16 october 1992。 they had one child， jessica， who was named after rowlings heroine， jessica mitford。 they divorced in 1993 after a fight in which jorge threw her out of the house。 in december 1994， rowling and her daughter moved to be near rowlings sister in edinbu

9、rgh， scotland. unemployed and living on state benefits， she completed her first novel. she did much of the work in the elephant house caf whenever she could get jessica to fall asleep. there was a rumour that she wrote in local cafs to escape from her unheated flat， but in a 2001 bbc interview rowli

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