Who is J.K. Rowling?
By: by Pamela Pollack and Meg Belviso ; illustrated by Stephen Marchesi
Contributors: Belviso, Meg; Marchesi, Stephen, ill
Series: Who was...?
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Juvenile literature; Biography; English Authors
Description: "In 1995, on a four-hour-delayed train from Manchester to London, J. K. Rowling conceived of the idea of a boy wizard named Harry Potter. Upon arriving in London, she began immediately writing the first book in the saga. Rowling's true-life, rags-to-riches story is as compelling as the world of Hogwarts that she created. This biography details not only Rowling's life and her love of literature but the story behind the creation of a modern classic"--