From The Brink Of Suicide To Massive Success: How J.K. Rowling Rise To Fame?

J.K. Rowling’s personal life narrative demonstrates that with perseverance and resourcefulness, we are capable of doing remarkable things, that most barriers can be overcome, and that anybody can be successful.

Joanne Rowling (born 31 July 1965 in Gloucestershire) is a British author best known for the Harry Potter series of novels, which have sold over 500 million copies and have inspired eight films. She has won several literary honors. But her life before Harry Potter was far from glamorous, creative, or famous. Behind this wonderful, fictitious narrative about a young magician is an equally unbelievable, but true story.

It is a classic narrative about a lady who overcame all hardships and never gave up her desire, even in the darkest of times. In the end, she earned billions of dollars and a secure existence.

How she managed to rise from the bottom and succeed in life, find out below!

LIFE BEFORE HARRY POTTER

Joanne was raised in a low-income home surrounded by books. She knew she wanted to write from a young age and made up stories for her younger sister, but her parents were not enthused. They thought that writing was a waste of time and that her imagination was merely a fleeting trend.

In the late 1980s, she had the concept for a narrative about a child who attends a wizarding school, and by the early 1990s, she had a ready sketch of the storyline of the seven-book series, which she did not have the opportunity to execute at the time. In 1995, Rowling was traveling by train from Manchester to London when the idea for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone came to her.

Her twenties were defined by her mother’s death, an unplanned miscarriage, and a career hunt that led her to go from London to Porto (Portugal), where she married television journalist Jorge Arantes in 1992, but he began physically assaulting her immediately after the wedding.

Despite this, she had a daughter, but because the violence continued, she divorced her husband at the age of 28. She was diagnosed with severe depression at the time. She became a single mother on assistance at the age of 29, and claimed that she considered suicide at one point.

She went to Edinburgh with her sister in 1994. Despite her poor living circumstances, she did not abandon the account of the little wizard’s exploits. She wrote her first novel on a typewriter in Edinburgh cafés (where, she later admitted, she went to avoid paying for heating), whenever she could get her daughter to sleep.

SEARCH FOR A PUBLISHER

When she finished the first book (Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone) in 1997, she faced a new challenge: she was rejected 12 times by publishers!

The search lasted a year, and when she eventually located him, he suggested that she publish under a pseudonym so that male readers would not be put off by a female author. She did exactly that. Because she lacked a middle name, she took her grandmother’s (Kathleen) and became J.K. Rowling. The rest is history.

Bloomsbury editors realized the importance of her book and published ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’ in 1996. The book sold more than 150,000 copies in the UK in just a few months, and she swiftly became one of the wealthiest women.

Rowling was elected Writer of the Year at the age of 35, which is one of the most prestigious honors. This encouraged her even more, and a few years later her book sold 11 million copies on the first day.

GLOBAL SUCCESS OF THE NEW SERIES OF BOOKS