Ashley+Crook

JK Rowling

Thesis statement- Jk rowling is influential and inspiring to other fantasy writers becuase her books are really successfull and know world wide


 * 1) she has brought major popularity to fantasy novels
 * 2) her books show a wide appeal to the fantasy genre
 * 3) many people have based stories,songs, etc based on harry potter books
 * 4) close to 200,000 stories have been based on her books
 * 5) her books have inspired many other authors to write fantasy novels
 * 6) her books have gotten many people who usually dont read to start reading
 * 7) alot of people have said they didnt enjoy reading untill they read harry potter books
 * 8) won new york times best seller
 * 9) her books have been printed in over 35 different languages
 * 10) The first story she wrote was called rabit at age 6
 * 11) started writing between the ages of 5 and 6
 * 12) The harry potter books are some of the only childrens books to be featured on the national best seller list
 * 13) she was rejected by 9 publishers before becoming selected
 * 14) the last harry potter book was published in 2006
 * 15) it was called harry potter and the deathy hallows
 * 16) the first person to read her books were her daughter
 * 17) got the last name potter from her neighbors last name
 * 18) her longest book had over 900 pages in it
 * 19) got the idea of harry potter while sitting in a train station
 * 20) was former english and french teacher


 * 1) born in july of 1965
 * 2) born in yale england
 * 3) birth name is joanne kathlenne rowling
 * 4) when she was 9 she attended a primary school
 * 5) She graduated from Wyedean Comprehensive.
 * 6) then attended exeter university
 * 7) childrens book published her first book in 1997
 * 8) she won the childrens book award later that year
 * 9) has been writing for 12 years
 * 10) sold over 400 million books
 * 11) will be 8 movies made frm her books
 * 12) all her books have been made into audio books
 * 13) her books are for all ages
 * 14) her writing style is unique
 * 15) books have been publishe in 68 languages
 * 16) many different authors have a writing style similar to hers
 * 17) one of them is stephen king
 * 18) she said she always wanted to write fantasy
 * 19) she said it was hard for her first novel to sell
 * 20) but became easier for other books because people liked the first book


 * 1) known as one of the bst fantasy writers of all time
 * 2) shes been married twice
 * 3) has 3 kids
 * 4) she writes her books by hand
 * 5) she doesntuse a computer
 * 6) took her 6 years to write her first book
 * 7) got her character names from ancient names
 * 8) she has been a favorite for many people for years
 * 9) 7 books in the harry potter series
 * 10) she taught to support her family
 * 11) is a rags to riches story
 * 12) with her book such a success if made it harder for other authors to write
 * 13) has a sister named dianna
 * 14) shes 2 years younger than he