BIOGRAPHY

IDENTITY
 What’s her name?
• Her name’s Joanne Katherine Rowling.
 When was she born?
• She was born on July 31st 1965.
 Where was she born?
• She was born in Yate, Gloustershire, England.
 What’s her nationality?
• She is British / English.
 Where does she live?
• She lives in Perth, Scotland.
 FAMILY BACKGROUND
 Mother
• What was her mother’s name?
 Her mother’s name was Anne Rowling.
• What was her mother’s nationality?
 She was British.
 Father
• What’s her father’s name?
 Her father’s name is Peter James Rowling.
• What’s her father’s nationality?
 He’s British too.
 Brothers and sisters
• Does she have any sisters or brothers?
 Yes, she has got one sister, Dianne, born on June 28th 1967.
 FAMILY (2)
 When did she get married?
• She got married for the first time in 1992. They divorced in
1993.
• She got married for the second time in 2001.
 Who did she marry?
• She first married a journalist.
• Then she married an anaesthetist.
 Has she got any children?
• She has got a daughter, Jessica, with her first husband, born
in 1993.
• She has got a son, David, born in 2003, from her second
marriage.
 INTERESTS
 What does she like doing?
• She likes reading, writing and relaxing.
 What are her interests?
• She helps combating poverty across the world, and
gives a lot of money to medical research and to
Médecins sans Frontières.
 STUDIES
 Where did she study?
• She studied at the university of Exeter, in the
South West of England.
 What did she study?
• She studied French at university.
 CAREER
 What does she do?
• She’s a writer / a novelist.
 When did she start her career?
• She started writing her first novel, Harry Potter and the
Philosopher Stone, in 1995.
 What did she write?
• She wrote the Harry Potter series.
 How many books did she write?
• She wrote 7 novels.