JK Rowling is known to be the author of Harry Potter, but throughout her life she has been through very difficult times. We discover its history, an authentic example of struggle and personal improvement.
The story of JK Rowling, best known for being the author of the Harry Potter work, is full of all kinds of dark moments.
Although thanks to his love of writing, he was never intimidated to later launch one of the most prolific sagas of the young adult novel.
Its success was such that today it has managed to sell more than 300 million units worldwide and the work of Harry Potter has been translated into more than 64 languages.
JK Rowling’s life was marked by the death of her mother
Although, as we have mentioned, before launching the adventures of this charismatic young wizard, JK Rowling’s life was mostly marked by misfortune and mistreatment. And then we are going to tell you why.
It was 1990 when our beloved writer was on her way to work in Manchester. It was then that the idea of telling the story about a school of Magicians suddenly occurred to him. Suddenly, the idea of Harry just popped into my imagination. I can’t say why, or what triggered it, but I saw the idea of Harry and the Wizarding School very explicitly,” explained Joanne herself.
However, just before she got home, news reached her that was going to mark her for the rest of her life. Rowling’s mother passed away due to the multiple sclerosis disease that had been dragging on for a couple of months. With this death, this girl from the south of the United Kingdom lost one of her most precious supports.
JK Rowling also had to deal with abuse and depression
After the sudden death of her mother, JK Rowling was forced to reset and start a new life outside the UK. Said and done. She took the “world as a hunt” and moved to the Portuguese city of Porto to work as a teacher in a small English academy.
Once settled, the years passed until she finally met a journalist with whom she felt loved and loved after the death of her more than beloved mother. However, the following months were a real ordeal for Joanne. She was the victim of physical and psychological abuse by her husband in a continuous and premeditated manner. However, this did not prevent her first daughter from being born in 1993, whom she named Isabel.
A short time later, JK Rowling filed for divorce and quickly left for Edinburgh (Scotland) to escape all that hell in which she had been involved. However, fortune did not smile at this writer either. With a daughter to educate and feed, the protagonist of this story was forced to ask for money on the streets. She was jobless and sometimes she didn’t even have two pence to buy a paltry can of peas for her little daughter.
JK Rowling begins to taste the honeys of success
It was at that moment that everything seemed lost. Did it make sense to continue living in a miserable way? Was this really the future he wanted to give his daughter? Well obviously not. From there, JK Rowling had no choice but to go to the hospital. It was the doctors themselves who diagnosed him with clinical depression, an illness that could have led him to suicide quite safely.
Although from that moment, this British author began her way to the top. She realized that she had to keep living to give her little girl a better future and world to live in. Therefore, while JK Rowling was taking care of her precious girl in a cafe, she began to write the story of a young wizard who was going to help entertain her before going to sleep.
The truth is that she was so satisfied by this first story that she decided to sell it to any of the publishers in the area. In the first instance, it was rejected by more than twelve of them. Although one accepted offering him a contract of 345 dollars a month for his comics. And from there, his rise was meteoric.
Everything JK Rowling wrote was so successful that her copies began to sell by the hundreds and later thousands. To give you an idea, her latest books sold more than 10 million units worldwide in just 24 hours, a fact that made her one of the most successful English writers of this century.
